The head of the United Nations is begging world leaders to please, for all that is good, not to use artificial intelligence to control their nuclear arsenals.played at the US Arms Control Association's annual meeting in Washington last week, UN Secretary-General António Guterres made an impassioned plea not just for nuclear disarmament, but for binding promises not to use AI to control weaponry — which, let's face it, seems like a pretty obvious rule.
"Humanity is on a knife's edge, the risk of a nuclear weapon being used has reached heights not seen since the Cold War," Guterres warned. "States are engaged in a qualitative arms race. Technologies like artificial intelligence are multiplying the danger.", the final arms agreement between Russia and the United States limiting and reducing each country's strategic arms capabilities.
"Until these weapons are eliminated," the secretary-general declared, "all countries must agree that any decision on nuclear use is made by humans, not machines or algorithms."explains, is the UN's most strident to date on AI and represents something of a departure from the UN's previous stance. Earlier this year, the international governmental organizationpromoting the "safe, secure and trustworthy" use of the burgeoning technology.