The United Nations advisory body on artificial intelligence (AI) issued seven recommendations last week to address AI-related risks, but experts told FOX News Digital the findings do not cover key areas of concern. he said.
“They didn’t talk much about the unique role of AI in different parts of the world, and they need to be more aware that the different economic structures that already exist, the different regulatory structures that already exist, are going to cause different outcomes. ” said Phil Siegel, co-founder of the Center for Advanced Preparedness and Threat Response Simulation (CAPTRS).
“I think we could have done a better job of being a little more specific about what a state like ours is and what makes it unique, rather than just trying to find the lowest common denominator.” Siegel said. “How does what we do in the United States affect other people, and what should we be especially careful about?
“It’s the same in Europe, where the privacy needs and rules are much stricter,” he said. “What does that mean? I think it would give us a little more credibility if we were a little more specific about the differences that environments around the world cause to the AI.”
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United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres speaks at the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly at United Nations Headquarters in New York, September 24, 2024. (Reuters/Mike Seeger)
On September 19, the United Nations Secretary-General’s High-Level Advisory Body on AI released draft guidelines aimed at covering “global AI governance gaps” among its 193 member countries.
The agency will establish an international scientific panel on AI, create a policy dialogue on AI governance, build a global AI capacity development network, establish a global AI fund, foster an AI data framework, and provide support to the United Nations Secretariat. We proposed the establishment of an AI office.
Siegel said these steps appear to be an effort by the United Nations to establish “a little more than a seat at the table, and perhaps a better seat at the table in other regions.”
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“If you want to take this at face value, I think what they’re doing is saying that some of the recommendations that the various member states have come out with are good, especially in the European Union. , because they are consistent with many of the recommendations.
“I think…this sets a bar in the right direction or a pointer in the right direction that people need to start paying attention to these things and start going off the rails, but really I think it may not be possible.”


Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammad Shia al-Sudani speaks at the 78th United Nations General Assembly at United Nations Headquarters in New York City, September 22, 2023. (Brian R. Smith/AFP via Getty Images)
Organizations are coordinating global AI policies as countries seek to maintain an edge while preventing competitors from matching the challenge. While trying to develop AI for all sorts of applications, it also holds safety summits to “coordinate” policy, such as a US-led summit scheduled for November in California.
Siegel said that even though countries are looking to establish their own security bodies to coordinate safety guidelines among nations, the United Nations is a better option to help coordinate efforts like the existing World Forum. admitted that it is likely to be one of the However, he remained concerned about UN overreach.
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“They should probably be coordinated through the United Nations, but in a way that implements best practices rather than rules or strict things that member states have to do,” Siegel suggested.
“As I said, I think the United Nations has a bit of a trust issue, given that they have tried to get more than a seat at the table in other areas and have been retaliated against, you know. , it already exists.


Michelle Donnellan, UK Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology (second from left) listening to a lecture by South Korean Minister of Science, Technology, Information and Communications Lee Jong-ho (second from right) at the AI Seoul Summit ministerial meeting May 2024 on the 22nd at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in Seoul. (Anthony Wallace/AFP via Getty Images)
“It seems to me to be a logical coordinating body because it’s something that the vast majority of countries around the world are members of, but it doesn’t necessarily convene and measure and benchmark.”
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Siegel said the U.S. and Europe have already made “fairly good progress” in developing long-term safety regulations, and Asian countries are also “doing a good job of their own and need to be included in these discussions.” said.
“Is the United Nations the right place to convene to make that happen, or is it better to wait for these things to happen and say, ‘We’re going to go there to support and support the pursuit?’ , I don’t know,’ instead of trying to make them happen,” Siegel said.
Reuters contributed to this report.