Pakistan warns UN Security Council that AI must not fuel military arms race. Calls for global governance frameworks and human control over AI development.
Pakistan’s deputy prime minister told the UN Security Council that artificial intelligence must not fuel military competition between nations, as he called for stronger global governance frameworks. The warning came during a briefing where leaders of major AI companies acknowledged the technology poses serious risks requiring careful management.
- ▪Pakistan’s DPM Ishaq Dar stressed need for guardrails, regulations, and confidence-building measures to prevent AI from becoming another facet of military arms race.
- ▪Dar emphasized human judgment and control must remain central to all stages of AI design, development, and integration to limit speed of future capabilities.
- ▪Called for AI governance under UN auspices with universal participation, warning against ‘gatekeeping’ that denies technology access or creates fragmentation.
- ▪OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told UNSC rapid advancement requires ‘extreme care’ and urged governments and industry to collaborate on shaping AI’s future.
- ▪Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei pledged to slow development and improve safety standards with each new release, warning AI could pose risk to humanity if mismanaged.
- ▪Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue noted open-source AI is essential for defending against attacks that increasingly target or exploit the technology.
- ▪White House Science Office director Michael Kratsios countered that rapid advancement shouldn’t trigger AI development pause or new governance constraints.
- ▪Pakistan hailed its founding membership in World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organisation (WAICO) as step toward inclusive, equitable AI development.
- ▪France’s foreign minister urged joint UN-industry action to set rules for AI era; meeting included diplomats from 15+ nations plus Yoshua Bengio, UN AI panel co-chair.
Source: according to media reports
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