Establish a UN-led body to oversee compute-intensive AI

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  Demis Hassabis

  Nobel laureate, AI Researcher and CEO of DeepMind

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  Then what I’d like to see eventually is an equivalent of a CERN for AI safety that does research into that – but internationally. And then maybe there’s some kind of equivalent one day of the IAEA, which actually audits these things. AI Verified source (2023)

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  Yoshua Bengio

  AI Pioneer, Turing Award winner

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  votes For and says:

  There needs to be an agency really in charge of overseeing these kinds of decisions. [...] As the power of AI continues to grow, this question of international commitment becomes pressing. AI Verified source (2026)

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  Wang Yi

  Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China; Director of the Office of the Central Foreign Affairs Commission

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  We should uphold a people-centered approach and the principle of AI for good, support the U.N. as the main channel, prevent the widening of the digital divide, and set clear guardrails for the military use and governance of AI. AI Unverifiable source (2026)

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  Pedro Sánchez

  Prime Minister of Spain

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  votes For and says:

  AI must, in all cases, be governed by common rules for everyone, based on shared principles, ethical and democratic accountability and effective multilateralism. AI Verified source (2026)

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  Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

  President of Brazil (2023–present); previously served 2003–2010

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  votes For and says:

  Nevertheless, none of these forums can replace the universality of the United Nations in ensuring multilateral, inclusive, and development-oriented international governance of artificial intelligence. AI Verified source (2026)

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  Margrethe Vestager

  Former EU Commission executive vice-president for Competition; AI governance advocate

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  These technologies – with their extraordinary potential benefits and equally extraordinary risks – cannot be governed by any single country, no matter how powerful it is. Effective governance requires exactly what we are missing: legitimate, effectiv... more AI Unverifiable source (2026)

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  Amandeep Singh Gill

  UN Under-Secretary-General and head of the Office for Digital and Emerging Technologies

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  votes For and says:

  AI's impact is global, but its governance is not. Through the Global Dialogue, for the first time, all 193 member countries of the UN will have a seat at the table in shaping international cooperation on AI governance. These two global mechanisms are... more AI Unverifiable source (2025)

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  Ursula von der Leyen

  President of the European Commission

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  First of all, let’s not forget that A.I. is a tremendous opportunity — if used responsibly. But responsibility at the frontier cannot be left to chance or to any single company or country. Just as the world built institutions to govern nuclear power ... more AI Unverifiable source (2024)

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  Mary Robinson

  Former Irish president; Elders chair

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  Along with my fellow Elders, I reaffirm our call from May 2023 for an international AI safety body. AI Unverifiable source (2024)

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  Eric Schmidt

  Former Google CEO; tech investor

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  We are moving well past regulatory understanding, government understanding of what is possible. That’s why, in my view, A.I. is begging for global rules. Think of institutions the world already knows: an IPCC to organize scientific consensus and, for... more AI Unverifiable source (2023)

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  Mustafa Suleyman

  Microsoft AI CEO; author

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  So, an intergovernmental panel on A.I. would be one that has access to all of the largest commercial labs and academic labs all around the world developing these large language models. They would be able to probe them and test them, audit them, look ... more AI Unverifiable source (2023)

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  The Elders

  Independent group of global leaders

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  A global architecture is needed [...] drawing on the model of the International Atomic Energy Agency [...] via the UN General Assembly [...] establish an AI safety agency. AI Unverifiable source (2023)

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  Nick Clegg

  Meta president of global affairs

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  The fundamental idea is, how should we as a world react if and when AI develops a degree of autonomy or agency? [...] Once we do that, we do cross a Rubicon. If that happens, by the way, there’s debate among experts; some say in the next 18 months, s... more AI Unverifiable source (2023)

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  Gary Marcus

  Professor of Psychology and Neural Science

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  I think the UN, UNESCO, places like that have been thinking about this for a long time. AI Verified source (2023)

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  António Guterres

  UN Secretary-General

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  I would be favorable to the idea that we could have an artificial intelligence agency AI Verified source (2023) < 1 of 2 >

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  Sam Altman

  CEO at OpenAI

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  We talk about the IAEA as a model where the world has said 'OK, very dangerous technology, let's all put some guard rails.' AI Verified source (2023)

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  Zlatko Lagumdžija

  Former Bosnian prime minister

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  So today I think we urgently need a leadership call, and I see our gathering as one of the leadership calls from this profile of people for establishment of an IAIA—International Artificial Intelligence Agency—as a next step to understanding the gove... more AI Unverifiable source (2021)

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  Lauren Lovelace

  U.S. Mission counselor at the United Nations

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  [This is] a significant overreach of the U.N.'s mandate and competence. We will not cede authority over AI to international bodies that may be influenced by authoritarian regimes seeking to impose their vision of controlled surveillance societies. AI Verified source (2026)

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  Michael Kratsios

  U.S. OSTP Director

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  The US totally rejects all efforts by international bodies to assert centralized control and global governance of AI. Ideological fixations on social equity, climate catastrophism, and so-called existential risk are dangers to progress and obstacles ... more AI Unverifiable source (2025)

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  Akash Wasil

  Lawfare contributing writer

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  votes Against and says:

  Many have turned to the International Atomic Energy Agency as a model for international A.I. institutions. But an ‘IAEA for A.I.’ is not a panacea. The IAEA works in a context with material stockpiles, treaty hooks, and decades of consensus about the... more AI Unverifiable source (2024)

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  Yann LeCun

  Computer scientist, AI researcher

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  votes Against and says:

  Calls for a global A.I. regulator modelled on the IAEA are misguided. Nuclear technology is a narrow, slow‑moving domain with obvious materials to track and a small set of state actors; A.I. is a broad, fast‑moving field with millions of researchers ... more AI Unverifiable source (2023)

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  Ryan Nabil

  Tech policy researcher, NTU Foundation

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  I have attached my paper entitled ‘Global AI Governance and the United Nations: The UN Should Update Its Existing Institutional Framework Instead of Creating a Global AI Agency’. AI Unverifiable source (2023)

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  Mike Watson

  Hudson Institute fellow and writer

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  If the alarmists are right about the dangers of AI and try to fix it with an IAEA-style solution, then we’re already doomed. AI Unverifiable source (2023)

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  Ian J. Stewart

  Nonproliferation expert and scholar

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  But the nuclear governance model is actually not a good one for regulation of Artificial General Intelligence. AI Unverifiable source (2023)

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  Rishi Sunak

  Former UK prime minister

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  votes Against and says:

  We’re a long way from anyone establishing an IAEA equivalent for AI, those things are long into the distance. [...] But in the first instance just talking through this with like-minded countries is a sensible thing. We will all benefit from hearing ... more AI Unverifiable source (2023)

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  Kenneth Payne

  War studies professor, KCL

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  OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, is worried about the emergence of a ‘superintelligent’ AI - perhaps even an AGI, or Artificial General Intelligence, that will be far smarter than humans. So, this week they published a memo sketching out how that ... more AI Unverifiable source (2023)

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  Ian Bremmer

  Geopolitics expert; Eurasia Group founder

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  That’s a critical, critical aspect of fighting climate change. And with A.I., so much more urgent and fast- moving, you will need an organization like that, a multistakeholder. But another thing we’re calling for is a techno credential approach, like... more AI Unverifiable source (2023)

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  Robert Trager

  Oxford political scientist; governance expert

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  the U.N. is not the only forum that should be considered. AI Verified source (2023)

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  Dmitry Polyanskiy

  Russia's Deputy U.N. Ambassador

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  We oppose the formation of supra-national oversight bodies in the field of AI. AI Verified source (2023)

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