US is leading "AI for good" push at United Nations

The United States is leading a new diplomatic push at the United Nations to mobilize all governments to support "AI for good and for all," according to US Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield. Despite the need for new tools to tackle urgent problems like climate change, the richest and most powerful governments that back international responsible-AI initiatives have steered away from the deeply divided UN as an AI forum—until now. The US wants the UN to explicitly affirm that AI will be deployed consistently with the UN's founding documents—the UN Charter, which aims to rid the world of war, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The US circulated a draft General Assembly resolution December 13, with the "crazily ambitious" goal of winning the support of all the UN's 193 member countries. US diplomats say they chose to take the proposal to the full UN General Assembly, rather than the more selective Security Council, in order to involve nations beyond the major powers