The U.N. Gets the World to Agree on AI Safety

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : "This first-ever standalone resolution on AI at the United Nations is a consensus resolution -- that means that all 193 member states will agree to it, and trust me, that is no easy feat," a senior Biden administration official said, adding that as of Wednesday afternoon, 97 countries had also co-sponsored the resolution and that number was growing "literally by the hour.
48% : "There were lots of heated conversations; that's not unusual for the United Nations," the first administration official said.
47% : "That broad agreement is significant, given the diplomatic battles that have played out in the United Nations between Western democracies and allies on the one hand and autocracies on the other.
47% : "The fact that 193 countries that often can't agree on anything at the U.N. were able to agree on this shows that this issue of AI is so transformative -- not only from the technology standpoint but in terms of the potential opportunities that people see -- that I think it transcended the usual geopolitical divisions that we have here in the United Nations.

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