Request to the UN: Stop Artificial Intelligence

Ten Nobel Prize-winning scientists are among more than 200 people who have signed a letter calling on the United Nations to define and enforce “red lines” prohibiting certain uses of Artificial Intelligence.

“Some advanced AI systems have already demonstrated deceptive and harmful behavior, and yet these systems are given greater autonomy to take actions and make decisions in the world,” the signatories argue, before arguing that AI “could soon far exceed human capabilities and escalate risks such as engineered pandemics, widespread disinformation, large-scale manipulation of individuals, including children, national and international security concerns, mass unemployment, and systematic human rights violations.”

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Their letter is available in a post by the group on its website red-lines.ai , where the signatories call on the UN to ban the use of AI in circumstances the group considers very dangerous, including giving AI systems direct control of nuclear weapons, using it for mass surveillance, and impersonating people without disclosing its involvement.

The group is calling on the UN to establish global enforceable controls on Artificial Intelligence by the end of 2026 and warns that once it is unleashed, no one can control it.

Among the signatories of the invitation are: Geoffrey Hinton, who won the Nobel Prize for his work in Artificial Intelligence, Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio, OpenAI co-founder and ChatGPT developer Wojciech Zaremba, Anthropic CISO Jason Clinton, and Google DeepMind research scientist Ian Goodfellow, along with a number of his colleagues from Google.

DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis and OpenAI's Sam Altman did not sign the request.

The group is asking the UN to take action by next year because it fears a slower response will be too late to effectively regulate AI.

“If left unchecked, many experts, including those on the front lines of development, warn that it will become increasingly difficult to exercise meaningful human control in the years ahead,” the request argues.

Of course, despite the noble intentions of the authors, it is unlikely that the UN will give it the necessary attention, as between the ongoing war in Ukraine, the situation in Gaza, and many other pressing global problems, this week's UN General Assembly agenda is already full.

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