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Diplomats examine AI risks to peace and potential for global oversight

British diplomats are leading a push at the U.N. that could be a starting point for a multilateral approach to regulating AI.

A girl makes friends with a robot at a market in Osaka, Japan.
A girl makes friends with a robot at a market in Osaka, Japan. (AN/Andy Kelly/Unsplash)

Amid warnings that humanity faces new existential dangers similar to the risk of nuclear war, the United Nations' most powerful arm held its first-ever meeting on the potential threats of artificial intelligence to international peace and security.

Russia, however, once again disrupted the U.N. Security Council's work – in the same week that it single-handedly blocked key deals involving Syria and Ukraine – by challenging the premise it is an appropriate forum for weighing AI oversight.

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