Mitsotakis: Artificial Intelligence must become a cornerstone for a safer, fairer, and more peaceful world

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis spoke astatine a high-level lawsuit of the UN Security Council, organized by the Korean presidency, connected the taxable “Artificial Intelligence and International Peace and Security.”

Speaking successful New York during the High-Level Week of the 80th General Assembly, helium underlined some the opportunities and the risks of artificial quality (AI), insisting that planetary governance indispensable guarantee that exertion “serves peace, quality dignity, and the highest aspirations of humanity.”

Mr. Mitsotakis began by congratulating South Korea for organizing the session, linking it to erstwhile initiatives. “Today’s treatment builds connected the informal Arria-formula gathering that Greece co-hosted past April with France and the Republic of Korea,” helium said.

He besides noted that the caller summits successful The Hague and Seoul, the U.S. Political Declaration connected the Responsible Military Use of AI, and the Paris AI Action Summit “contributed to the improvement of rules, regulations, and guidelines for the liable improvement and usage of artificial intelligence, including successful the highly delicate subject field.”

The Prime Minister emphasized that AI is not “just different tool,” but a general-purpose capableness that tin either fortify bid oregon destabilize. “In the close hands, it tin heighten peacekeeping, amended aboriginal informing systems, accelerate humanitarian assistance… In the incorrect hands, it tin substance disinformation, intensify cyberattacks, and little the threshold for escalation and conflict,” helium said.

By its nature, helium added, AI is “a dual-use technology, which means that our corporate information progressively depends connected the choices we make.”

Mr. Mitsotakis connected the contented to humanities examples of regulation, arguing that conscionable arsenic institutions were created successful the past to modulate atomic vigor and arms control, “we indispensable present make caller mechanisms to guarantee that innovation successful artificial quality enhances not lone bid and information but besides quality dignity.” This, helium stressed, requires “international cooperation, transparency, and a renewed committedness to the principles of the UN Charter.”

Acknowledging today’s information realities, helium warned that malicious actors are advancing quickly: “If we privation to support our citizens, support our deterrent power, and guarantee stability, we indispensable besides put responsibly successful AI applications for defence and information — ever successful accordance with planetary instrumentality and with a steadfast committedness to quality oversight.”

He stressed that this “is not a telephone for a caller arms race, but designation of the information that bid is hard to achieve, harder to safeguard, and hardest of each to sustain.”

The Prime Minister described the contiguous infinitesimal arsenic decisive. “We are astatine a turning point. The choices we marque astir AI volition not lone redefine the equilibrium of power, but besides find whether exertion becomes a unit for quality advancement oregon a lever of threat,” helium noted.

He urged the Security Council to emergence to the occasion, arsenic it did successful the atomic era. “The Council indispensable present respond to negociate the property of artificial intelligence,” helium said.

“Greece believes that the United Nations has the historical work to illustration a people wherever innovation strengthens peace, work tempers power, and exertion serves humanity’s highest aspirations.”

He warned that AI indispensable not beryllium allowed to go “a root of rivalry and division,” but alternatively “a cornerstone for a safer, fairer, and much peaceful world.”