The race to develop AI is happening alongside the race to regulate it — with the latter potentially having profound impacts on the former.
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In July, the UN Security Council held its 9,381st meeting and the very first specifically focused on artificial intelligence. As Secretary-General António Guterres noted, the technology has the potential to turbocharge global development but can also “help people to harm themselves and each other, at massive scale.”
In order to avoid that fate, the Council had invited a briefing from Zeng Yi, a professor at the Institute of Automation at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the dire
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