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He stressed that “if we want AI to serve humanity, policy cannot be built on guesswork,” underscoring the need for “facts we can trust – and share – across countries and across sectors.”
For this reason, the UN is developing mechanisms that put science at the centre of international cooperation on AI, starting with a recently appointed body that brings together 40 leading experts in the field.
The Independent International Scientific Panel on Artificial Intelligence aims to help close “the AI knowledge gap” and assess the real impacts these new technologies have across economies and societies so that countries can act with the same clarity regardless of their level of AI capacity. ...
The UN chief was adamant that science-led governance of AI “is not a brake on progress” but rather “an accelerator for solutions.”
It will help countries to identify where AI “can do the most good, the fastest,” he said, and provide “a way to make progress safer, fairer, and more widely shared.” ...
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