As it seeks to establish voluntary guidelines for the technology, the United Nations wants to address AI-generated fake news and information.
The media produced by artificial intelligence poses a "serious and urgent" threat to information integrity, particularly on social media, according to the United Nations.
In a June 12 report, the UN guaranteed the gamble of disinformation online has "heightened" because of "quick progressions in innovation, like generative man-made reasoning," and singled out deepfakes specifically.
According to the United Nations, AI-generated false information and hate speech are "convincingly presented to users as facts." An artificial intelligence-generated image and a fabricated news report of an explosion near the Pentagon caused a brief dip in the S&P 500 last month.
It asked AI stakeholders to address the dissemination of false information and to take "urgent and immediate" action to guarantee the responsible use of AI, and it added:
“The era of Silicon Valley’s ‘move fast and break things’ philosophy must be brought to a close.”
That very day, UN Secretary-General António Guterres held a public interview and said "alerts" over generative simulated intelligence are "stunning" and "are most intense from the engineers who planned it."
"Will inform a UN Code of Conduct for Information Integrity on Digital Platforms," Guterres added. The code is being created in front of the Culmination, representing things to come — a gathering to be held in late September 2024, meaning to have between government conversations on a heap of issues.
"The general set of rules will be a bunch of rules that we trust states, computerized stages, and different partners will execute intentionally," he said.
"Most significant policy challenge ever" Meanwhile, on June 13, a report on AI was released by former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Conservative Party politician William Hague.
"Push for a new UN framework on urgent safeguards," the pair advised the governments of the United Kingdom, the United States, and "other allies."
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The appearance of simulated intelligence "could introduce the most significant strategy challenge at any point confronted" because of its "capricious turn of events" and "consistently expanding power," the pair said.
The government's "existing approaches and channels are poorly configured" for such technology, Blair and Hague added.
(JESSE COGHLAN, CoinTelegraph, 2023)