António Guterres

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...

We need common baselines for frontier systems, common methods to evaluate and verify risks, and common resolve that systems with global reach must meet standards worthy of global trust.

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.

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...