Calls for red lines on AI

New York [US], September 24: At the opening session of the UN General Assembly High-Level Week in New York (USA) on September 22, more than 200 prominent figures in various fields signed a letter calling for drawing global red lines for artificial intelligence (AI).
According to NBC News, the main message of the letter is that AI is being developed in a direction that poses unprecedented risks, in which AI could soon surpass human capabilities and exacerbate risks such as mass unemployment , man-made pandemics, and widespread misinformation. Therefore, the authors argue that a binding and verifiable international treaty is needed to set clear limits. Some suggestions are to ban autonomous lethal weapons, prohibit the automatic replication of AI systems, and prohibit the use of AI in nuclear warfare.
With AI capabilities advancing rapidly, the authors urge policymakers to adopt the treaty by the end of 2026. In a speech at the UN General Assembly , journalist Maria Ressa, winner of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize, released the letter and urged governments to work together to "prevent unacceptable global risks from AI and define what AI should never do."
The open letter also includes Nobel Prize winners in chemistry, economics, physics, politicians, scientists such as OpenAI co-founder Wojciech Zaremba. In addition, the letter is also signed by Mr. Geoffrey Hinton and Mr. Yoshua Bengio, two of the three figures honored as "godfathers of AI" and who have been awarded the prestigious Turing Award, considered the Nobel of computer science .
"Over thousands of years, humanity has learned, sometimes the hard way, that powerful technologies can have dangerous consequences as well as beneficial ones. Humans must agree on clear red lines about AI before it reshapes society beyond our understanding and destroys the foundations of humanity," said historian Yuval Noah Harari, one of the signatories.
Source: Thanh Nien Newspaper