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The United Nations rights chief, Volker Turk, has warned that artificial intelligence could pose an existential risk to humanity.
The UN utilizes AI tools across agencies to promote peace, security, and human rights, with examples including UNICEF's accessible digital textbooks, UNEP's methane leak detection system, and WHO's AI-assisted tuberculosis screening.
The article discusses the UN's AI strategy that addresses many stakeholders but notably excludes the AI labs that actually build the technology, highlighting a gap in governance.
China reaffirmed support for the UN as the primary platform for AI governance, advocated for open-source AI citing DeepSeek and Qwen, and called for bridging the AI divide, at the UN's first Global Dialogue on AI Governance in Geneva.
Yann LeCun argues at the UN Open Source Week that open-source AI is essential for global AI sovereignty, as proprietary AI is too expensive and centralized for most countries and companies.