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UN Secretary-General António Guterres opened the first Global Dialogue on AI Governance in Geneva on Monday telling 193 nations
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"Artificial intelligence is advancing at runaway speed,” Guterres said in the opening of his keynote.
Key facts
- The dialogue was born from the 2024 Global Digital Compact, which established international AI governance as a UN mandate for the first time
- UN Secretary-General António Guterres opened the first Global Dialogue on AI Governance in Geneva on Monday telling 193 nations that AI is already outpacing the institutions meant to govern it—and
- The room included all 193 UN member states, convened in Geneva at the first Global Dialogue on AI Governance, a multilateral attempt to govern a technology that has already outrun everyone trying
- Guterres put the internet at 15 years to reach a billion people and AI at two
Summary
UN Secretary-General António Guterres opened the first Global Dialogue on AI Governance in Geneva calling AI deployment "faster than anyone—including the people building it—can keep up. Guterres repurposed "vibe coding"—the practice of letting AI write software without close human scrutiny—as a metaphor for dangerously passive governance: "The team cannot vibe code the future of humanity. He demanded an international law ban on lethal autonomous weapons and launched an AI Child Safety Pledge, with a second dialogue scheduled in New York in 2027. UN Secretary-General António Guterres opened the first Global Dialogue on AI Governance in Geneva on Monday telling 193 nations that AI is already outpacing the institutions meant to govern it—and that humanity is running an experiment on itself "without a plan, and without consent.