World’s first global AI resolution unanimously adopted by United Nations
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Ah yes, the nonbinding unenforceable UN resolution, the true bedrock of global stability.
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Engineer: "Hey boss, we're finished with this new AI model that will most likely destroy society while making us all filthy rich. Want me to release it?"
Manager: "Whoa, slow down! We need to check if it complies with the UN's Non-Binding Resolution first!"
Manager: "Whoa, slow down! We need to check if it complies with the UN's Non-Binding Resolution first!"
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So is it safe to assume Russia and China immediately violated the agreement while laughing at everyone else?
Edit: these are the same clowns that repeatedly told Russia to leave Ukraine with "strong words" while opposing kinetic encouragment. Not looking like an effective tactic...
Edit: these are the same clowns that repeatedly told Russia to leave Ukraine with "strong words" while opposing kinetic encouragment. Not looking like an effective tactic...
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SpankyFrost
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Remind me again what GOOD is the United Nations besides passing resolutions with no teeth or enforcement and spending lots of money! I am sure Roosevelt is rolling in his grave at the baloney this world have become.
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Crying Croc
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Make it binding and politicians in US will scream 'undermining US sovereignty' - esp. from MAGA Republicans.
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Crying Croc
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The UN is only going to be as powerful - or even simply as relevant - as the major members allow it to be. China, Russia and US consistently support UN resolutions that align with their respective interests - and undermine (or simply veto) them when otherwise. Whom to blame?
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If they could get everyone behind it odds seem very good indeed that it's some combination of banal platitudes and profound toothlessness.
If it were substantive at least someone would object to some detail; if not be outright bristling at foreign interference in their development of AI Sovereignty.
If it were substantive at least someone would object to some detail; if not be outright bristling at foreign interference in their development of AI Sovereignty.
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A short summary of the content of the provisions of the resolution would have been nice... I guess I'll ask copilot for it
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Only way it will pass. Too much politics mucking up things while world burns.
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So.. Implemented only in the EU. In this case it seems the EU is ahead of them.
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I have no interest in reading details of a nonbinding resolution that was adopted unanimously. There is nothing of value that could come from this exercise for most people.
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The League of Nations (UN)was formed to prevent a repetition of the First (second) World War, but within two (eight) decades this effort failed. Economic depression, renewed nationalism, weakened successor states, and feelings of humiliation (particularly in Germany (Russia)) eventually contributed to World War II (III).
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What's the point of a resolution in the first place, if it's not binding and there's no enforcement? It's a worthless piece of paper.
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Sometimes this stuff works as a blueprint for follow-on binding resolutions. Can't comment though on how well that pattern works at the UN.
Mostly, I feel like there is a lot of potential for smoke and distraction here. In the grand scheme of things, neural net subconscious bias is not important. The rights of artists and authors are not important. Security against hackers is mostly not important. The potential for 80% unemployment is the problem, at least as long as capitalism reigns. The key element long term is how countries will deal with the displaced workforce. If they do it well, robotics will fund social programs like retirement funds that otherwise would be scheduled to fail as the demographic pyramid goes tower shaped. If they do it poorly, it will make the problem much worse. The stability of governments is at stake. The outcome mostly depends on how successfully governments are able to pry loose the plutocracy's determined grip on robo-profits. We may be sure they are not investing billions expecting the lions share of the returns to disappear into taxes, but that is exactly what needs to happen if we are to avoid political instability. Otherwise, the wealthy will finally proclaim their millennia-long sought independence from workers and Joe Sixpack, slowly building anger and resentment at not having been paid in years, will be in the market for torches and pitchforks. For him, there will be no alternative.
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The UN is a diplomatic organization. The point of the resolution is to communicate a policy position that the nations have agreed on and that is it.
Enforcement and implementation is up to the individual member states. This will likely result in nothing, because of the dysfunction in US politics where most AI companies are located. But that's on the US, not the UN.
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Nonbinding. That is all we need to know.
Secondly, most of the data has already been hoovered up through shadow data brokers. And once the data is gone, you cannot “take it back”.
Thirdly, the “ask for forgiveness, not for permission” mentality of big tech and their “rogue engineers” will make sure adherence will be nonexistent.
Until we actually start slamming fines that cost companies half of their bottom line, and have laws with teeth that can put sway CEOs for egregious violations, nothing will change.
Secondly, most of the data has already been hoovered up through shadow data brokers. And once the data is gone, you cannot “take it back”.
Thirdly, the “ask for forgiveness, not for permission” mentality of big tech and their “rogue engineers” will make sure adherence will be nonexistent.
Until we actually start slamming fines that cost companies half of their bottom line, and have laws with teeth that can put sway CEOs for egregious violations, nothing will change.
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Pass or not, the UN doesn’t enforce its own measures (such as the UN Human Rights agreement, like feeding and housing everyone).
It does do a great job of stopping ceasefires or whatever suits US hegemony/geopolitical goals
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While mostly feckless it does put words on paper which countries agree to. So if one actor is eggrigiously flouting that agreement it gives narrative for the remaining to agree on other mitigations of said concern.
Of course if one actor runs away with disproportionate AI power on the global scale what can anyone do about it?
Of course if one actor runs away with disproportionate AI power on the global scale what can anyone do about it?
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I too share the cynicism re this being nonbinding.
However, as the UN isn't an enforcement agency, but a diplomatic institution, this gives me a very small measure of hope that at least the issues of personal information & workforce disruption etc are acknowledged on the the world stage. As the saying goes, the first step to solving a problem is identifying the problem
However, as the UN isn't an enforcement agency, but a diplomatic institution, this gives me a very small measure of hope that at least the issues of personal information & workforce disruption etc are acknowledged on the the world stage. As the saying goes, the first step to solving a problem is identifying the problem
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One way to make the UN even more irrelevant is to keep issuing more resolutions that have zero teeth, right after having war criming regimes sit in the Security Council. It's a farce at this point.
I think the only reason it still exists is that the bosses want an excuse to come to New York every year.
I think the only reason it still exists is that the bosses want an excuse to come to New York every year.
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Oh I didn't realize we just invented AI. I thought we've been calling glorified statistics AI since what, the 80s? Apart from the fact that this is non-binding, these kinds of ideas should have been on the regulatory agenda at least a decade or two ago, before the tech giants got all their privacy-violating systems (etc) in place and engrained into people's lives.
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There is a social contract between those that wield immense power and/or wealth and those who don't. The former ensures that the latter as a group is never in a position where they have nothing to lose and everything to gain, and the latter agrees to not do what people tend to do when they have nothing to lose and everything to gain.
That contract is breaking down, the rate and intensity at which it is going to be violated cannot be predicted except to say that both attributes are at least somewhat likely to be represented by completely unprecedented values.
We are living in interesting times.
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No one has predicted with any notable degree of reliability the timeline for the developments we have observed in the last few years. It is unreasonable to expect decades of regulatory foresight when a decade ago there was nothing even approaching a consensus among experts as to when we would hit the milestones in image, video, music, speech, and text synthesis and recognition we have hit in the last 3 years with (for the time) reasonable estimates ranging as far out as several decades.
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Anton Longshot
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I was going to post "Empty words!" but was ninja'd by pretty much EVERYONE ^^.
Which btw makes me feel good, thanks people.
Which btw makes me feel good, thanks people.
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The UN was specifically designed by the Powers That Were at the end of WWII. Specifically designed to be powerless, or easily mitigated by those Big Powers. It's actually pretty impressive that the UN gets as much done as it does, considering the roadblocks built into its structure.
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Even the ones that want to weaponise it supported it, they just won’t tell anyone they’re weaponising it.
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This is both the UN blessing and curse - how to you keep countries with wildly opposing interests in the same room? Give them power so if they're in the room they can effectively nerf any resolution, if they leave the room they'll get chewed out on the world stage. And so everybody stays to make sure the UN stays chained and muzzled. That said, having all these diplomats in the same place also means that a lot of other work gets done that's not heading for a floor vote.
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