António Guterres

AI can accelerate medical breakthroughs. Transform education. Strengthen food systems and agricultural productivity. Spur new industries and create decent jobs.

Transferring the decision-making to killer robots would be morally repugnant and politically unacceptable.

Any future agreement must be worthy of global trust and put safety first – and especially children’s – to protect them from digitally-generated manipulation and abuse.

Artificial intelligence is advancing at runaway speed. A technology that can reshape economies, transform the world of work, sway elections and tilt the balance of security is being deployed faster than anyone — including the people building it — can...

No company should deploy an AI system accessible to children without child-specific safety testing and independent oversight.

Science informs, but humans decide. Our goal is to make human control a technical reality, not a slogan. And that requires meaningful human oversight in every high-stakes decision — in justice, healthcare, credit.

AI must belong to everyone.

We are witnessing perhaps the greatest transfer of power of our times — not from Governments to people, but from Governments to private technology companies. [...] When technologies that shape behaviour, elections, markets, and even conflicts operate...