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U.S. rejects international AI oversight at U.N. General Assembly | While heads of state and world experts highlighted risks and opportunities from AI, U.S. representatives expressed deep opposition to any global effort to govern the technology.
While heads of state and world experts highlighted risks and opportunities from AI, U.S. representatives expressed deep opposition to any global effort to govern the technology.
But in an interview with NBC News, Amandeep Singh Gill, the U.N.’s special envoy for digital and emerging technologies, said that the United States’ critical perception of the U.N.’s role in international AI governance was misconstrued. In remarks immediately following Kratsios’ comments, China’s Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Ma Zhaoxu said, “It is vital to jointly foster an open, inclusive, fair and nondiscriminatory environment for technological development and firmly oppose unilateralism and protectionism.” Reacting to the week’s developments, Renan Araujo, director of programs for the Washington, D.C.-based Institute for AI Policy and Strategy, told NBC News that “no one wants to see a burdensome, bureaucratic governance structure, and the U.S. has succeeded in starting bilateral and minilateral coalitions.
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