With China and the UN Security Council developing positions on AI risk, I think we can say that the issue has now been recognized everywhere in world politics.
Here’s the UN press release. I think it’s somewhat amazing that someone from Anthropic addressed the UN Security Council, but that’s how far we’ve come now.
Of course we should now prepare to be disappointed, dismayed and horrified, as the highest powers now forget the issue for months at a time, or announce perspectives and initiatives that seem to be going in the wrong direction. But that’s politics. The point is that increasingly there’s political awareness and an organizational infrastructure, that at least nominally is meant to deal with AI risk at a global level, when a year ago there was basically nothing.
Yi Zeng’s full statement to the UN. Also, why he co-signed open letters on AI risk.
With China and the UN Security Council developing positions on AI risk, I think we can say that the issue has now been recognized everywhere in world politics.
Here’s the UN press release. I think it’s somewhat amazing that someone from Anthropic addressed the UN Security Council, but that’s how far we’ve come now.
Of course we should now prepare to be disappointed, dismayed and horrified, as the highest powers now forget the issue for months at a time, or announce perspectives and initiatives that seem to be going in the wrong direction. But that’s politics. The point is that increasingly there’s political awareness and an organizational infrastructure, that at least nominally is meant to deal with AI risk at a global level, when a year ago there was basically nothing.