On Wednesday, the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres unveiled a list of nominees from which the General Assembly will select individuals who will constitute a scientific panel mandated to assess and make recommendations on how artificial intelligence can transform lives across the world.
During a media briefing, Guterres said AI was moving at the speed of light and the world needed a shared understanding of the technology so that appropriate guardrails could be built so that innovation could be unlocked for the good of everyone and cooperation could be fostered on this technology around the world. He emphasized that this new panel would play an instrumental role in helping the globe to separate fakes from facts while also helping to distinguish slop from science.
The Independent International Scientific Panel traces its roots back to 2023 in the wake of the introduction of ChatGPT and an explosion of interest in AI. At the time, the Secretary General called a group of top academics and technologists and asked them to come up with recommendations geared at promoting safe governance of AI.
The group conducted detailed discussions and proposed a vision through which AI governance could be done in ways that benefit humanity. One of the recommendations they made was that a scientific panel that was independent yet UN-supported needed to be created. This international panel, according to Guterres, will now help in closing knowledge gaps on AI and analyze real impacts of the technology on different societies and economies.
The selected panelists will undertake deep dives and exchange ideas on priority AI areas like energy, education and health, and also share the cutting-edge research on the technology.
The panelists nominated were selected based on a broad range of factors like their globally-acknowledged AI expertise, gender balance requirements and geographical representation. In total, 21 men and 19 women were shortlisted to be considered for membership on this scientific panel.
They include Maria Ressa from the Philippines. She is a Nobel Peace Prize winner and a renowned journalist. Prof. Sonia Livingstone from the UK was also nominated. She works at the London School of Economics and also advises on media rights and literacy in the digital era. Other nominees include Balaraman Ravindran from India. He is the Indian Institute of Technology’s data and AI department head.
The diverse membership of the panel is geared at bringing to the table different ways of looking at geopolitical tensions, divergent views on AI regulation and other divergent viewpoints on matters related to AI.
The UN General Assembly will make a decision on the panel’s membership on February 12 and the selected panel will then be expected to deliver its maiden report in July this year. This panel builds on the UN mandate to advance common understanding on evolving issues.
Leaders in the tech industry, such as Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOGL) (NASDAQ: GOOG), the parent company of Google, will be following and possibly providing input to the panel so that a global framework to help all societies benefit from AI in a regulated way can be developed.
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