UNO: The United Kingdom, which sees enormous potential but also significant risks regarding AI's potential use in autonomous weapons or the control of nuclear weapons, will host the UN Security Council's first-ever meeting on the potential threats of AI to global peace and security.

The July 18 meeting was formally announced as the main event of the UK's month-long council presidency by UK Ambassador Barbara Woodward on Monday. The Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who last month called the alarm bells over the most advanced form of AI "deafening," and loudest from its developers, will give briefings as well as other international AI experts.

The UN chief stated that "these scientists and experts have called on the world to act, declaring artificial intelligence to be an existential threat to humanity on a par with the possibility of nuclear war."

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In order to develop initiatives that the UN can take, Guterres announced plans to appoint an advisory board on artificial intelligence in September. Additionally, he expressed support for the idea of a new UN agency focused on artificial intelligence and offered the IAEA as a possible model because it is knowledge-based and has some regulatory authority.

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The UK, according to Woodward, wants to support "a multilateral approach to managing both the huge opportunities and risks that artificial intelligence holds for all of us," emphasising that "this is going to take a global effort."
She emphasised that there are many advantages to AI, pointing out its potential to support conflict prevention efforts, enhance humanitarian aid operations, support peacekeeping missions, and assist UN development programmes.

It might enable us to narrow the gap between developed and developing nations, she continued.

However, the risk factor brings up important security issues that also need to be resolved, according to Woodward.

With the emergence of a new breed of AI that gives chatbots like ChatGPT the ability to produce text, images, video, and audio that resembles human work, Europe has led the world in efforts to regulate artificial intelligence. These efforts have become more urgent. On June 14, EU lawmakers approved the first set of comprehensive AI regulations, removing a major roadblock as governments around the world race to control AI.

In May, the CEO of the AI company that develops ChatGPT testified before the US Senate that government intervention will be essential to reducing the risks posed by increasingly potent AI systems. He added that as this technology develops, people are worried about how it might affect their lives, and "we are too."

The founder and CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman, suggested creating a US or international organisation that would be in charge of licencing the most potent AI systems and have the power to "take that licence away and ensure compliance with safety standards."

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The Security Council meeting, which will be presided over by the British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly, will, according to Woodward, give the 15 members of the council the chance to hear the opinions of experts on artificial intelligence (AI), a relatively new technology that is rapidly advancing.

The UK will host an AI summit later this year, according to British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, "where we'll be able to have a truly global multilateral discussion," Woodward said