Leaders push for stronger AI safeguards at UN as Trump touts 'Super Intelligence'

Visions for the future of AI are playing out at the United Nations as world leaders talk about the threat — or promise — of artificial intelligence.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres kicked off the parade of world leaders speaking at the General Assembly by calling for more oversight of AI, warning in vivid if not ominous terms of what could go wrong.

“Let us resolve that life-and-death decisions must never be surrendered to machines. Killer robots must have no place in our future,” Guterres said in his farewell address to world leaders. He also warned about AI in his first General Assembly address a decade ago.

With Guterres saying the world needs to “advance the conditions for the responsible pacing of AI and the additional safeguards needed to address risks,” the UN Security Council on Wednesday will address how to place some kind of controls on the technology and it will feature some of the biggest names in the field.