The UN Has Begun Its “AI for Good” Summit

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Doreen Bogdan-Martin, Secretary-General of the UN’s International Telecommunication Union, spoke on the first day of the “AI for Good” summit. Veuer’s Matt Hoffman has the story.

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00:00 Everyone's trying to get in on the AI trend, including the United Nations.

00:04 Wednesday marked the start of the UN's AI for Good Summit,

00:07 a series of discussions of how artificial intelligence should be handled.

00:11 Doreen Bogdan-Martin, who spoke at the summit,

00:13 is the Secretary General of the UN's International Telecommunication Union.

00:17 It's not the benefits, it's the risks of artificial intelligence

00:22 that keep us all awake at night.

00:24 At the heart of all of this is a conundrum.

00:29 How do we govern a technology?

00:32 How do we govern technologies if we don't yet know their full potential?

00:37 The last couple years have seen companies in all sorts of industries

00:40 rush to incorporate AI into their operations.

00:43 But there have been ethical concerns.

00:45 For example, according to The Guardian, a report from earlier this year

00:48 indicated that AI large language models are often racist

00:51 against people who speak in Black American dialect.

00:54 And in April, Israeli outlets Plus 972 Magazine and Local Call

00:58 reported that the Israeli government has been using AI programs

01:01 to compile lists of assassination targets.

01:04 And there are also concerns about the limits of AI's actual effectiveness.

01:07 Google released its AI overview feature this month,

01:10 and according to Fast Company, the service quickly drew mockery

01:13 for giving users strange advice like eating rocks and putting glue on pizza.

01:17 Bogdan-Martin acknowledged some of these issues.

01:20 It is risky,

01:22 and it is ethically precarious to be in this kind of position for humanity.

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