There's an awful lot of fear around AI right now that I think could be solved by showing people just how ineffective the more recent AI developments have been at solving most real problems. That being said, it's good the UN is starting discussions around it early on, in case it develops to the point where fully autonomous weapon systems can be widely deployed and relied on. It does feel like only a matter of time before we reach that point, as much as I'd like for it not to happen.
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Vatican’s top diplomat urged world leaders Tuesday to put a pause on lethal autonomous weapons systems for long enough negotiate an agreement on them, joining a series of U.N. General Assembly speakers who have expressed concern about various aspects of artificial intelligence.
“It is imperative to ensure adequate, meaningful and consistent human oversight of weapon systems,” Archbishop Paul Gallagher, the Holy See’s foreign minister, said as the biggest annual gathering on the diplomatic calendar wound down.
The Vatican also likes the idea of creating an international AI organization focused on facilitating scientific and technological exchange for peaceful uses and “the promotion of the common good and integral human development,” he said.
The topic got considerable attention both in the assembly hall and on the sidelines of this year’s big meeting, with speakers expressing both hope that the technology will help the world flourish and worries that it could do just the opposite.
The Vatican likes the idea of creating an international AI organization focused on facilitating scientific and technological exchange for peaceful uses and “the promotion of the common good and integral human development,” Gallagher said.
Gallagher called for starting talks toward a legally binding pact to govern lethal autonomous weapons systems — colloquially known as “killer robots” — and for “a moratorium on them pending the conclusion of negotiations.”
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