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464 sentences in 137 speeches for artificial intelligence
Download CSVAlbania · Edi Rama · Day 4 · 20 sentences
- Mr. President, dear representatives of the peoples of the United Nations, I've been very positively surprised that A lot of friends wanted to know about what's going on in our country with artificial intelligence.
- Artificial intelligence is changing something even more intimate.
- The greatest immediate danger is not that artificial intelligence will stop obeying humanity.
- What artificial intelligence does instead of us, what it does to us, and who gains the power to reach us.
Secretary-General of the United Nations · António Guterres · Day 1 · 17 sentences
- And the climate crisis went from distant warning to daily reality, and artificial intelligence moved at a speed that has blindsided even those who created it.
- And the power unleashed by artificial intelligence.
- Excellencies, the first power test is technology and above all, artificial intelligence.
- In 2017, AI was barely on the world's radar.
Singapore · Vivian Balakrishnan · Day 5 · 17 sentences
- Artificial intelligence, which we've heard so many times from the podium this week, is arguably the most urgent frontier.
- AI offers extraordinary potential, but its capability is advancing faster than our appreciation of its risks.
- Second, that rogue actors could use AI to create bio weapons or other weapons of mass destruction or mass disruption.
- Every one of us has to continue to invest in science, the talent, and the infrastructure that will drive AI forward.
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland · Andy Burnham · Day 1 · 12 sentences
- On top of that, we have seen cyber attacks on companies and institutions, and we know that AI will multiply the threat.
- We are going to step into that role and we are going to start with one of the most significant challenges and opportunities of our age, frontier AI.
- AI brings together so many of the most pressing issues before us.
- It is already speeding up cancer diagnosis in the UK, but AI has the potential to go further, not just to help prevent and treat cancer, but to help cure it.
Germany · Johann Wadephul · Day 5 · 12 sentences
- I am, of course, talking about artificial intelligence.
- AI can endanger the infrastructure that keeps our societies running.
- At the same time, artificial intelligence holds extraordinary promise.
- Just imagine a world where, with the help of AI, we can prevent famine and cure cancer.
France · Emmanuel Macron · Day 1 · 11 sentences
- Every speaker has described the return of imperialism, of arrogance, the return of unrestrained force which knows no rules, a world in which we see power concentrated in the hands of the few, a world in which some believe that they can undermine the international order so as to push their borders outwards, those that believe that people's sovereignty can be toppled over, that they could use that sovereignty, people who believe that they can decide the fate of the planet, whether that be as regards the climate or AI.
- Last but not least, we must hold fast and not yield on artificial intelligence.
- No, no. Starting in 2008 at the G7 with our Canadian friends, we launched the Global Partnership for Artificial Intelligence under the auspices of the OECD to kickstart discussions on the need for regulation.
- At the AI Summit in 2025, the AI Governance Summit, the next edition will be held in Switzerland next year.
Greece · Kyriakos Mitsotakis · Day 3 · 11 sentences
- Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to conclude with a few thoughts on the topic of artificial intelligence.
- However, it is simply impossible to ignore the fact that at present, the risks of an unchecked and unregulated advance in artificial intelligence could greatly outweigh its potential benefits.
- When the people developing the technology tell us openly that left unchecked, AI could outrun our ability to control these systems, the same people admit that we only understand a tiny fraction of what goes on in these models, alarm bells should ring very loudly for all of us.
- In simple words, the AI bosses are telling us that they have no idea on how recursive self-improvement, the ability of AI to constantly create better versions of itself, actually works.
Lithuania · Gitanas Nausėda · Day 1 · 10 sentences
- This risk is further enhanced by the development of artificial intelligence.
- As we all know, AI has a huge potential for transformation, especially in the field of economy.
- As any instrument, AI is also increasingly used by those seeking to cause harm and destruction.
- My country, Lithuania, strongly believes that the future of AI must not be determined by authoritarian control, technological coercion, or the malicious use of data.
Estonia · Alar Karis · Day 2 · 10 sentences
- Ladies and gentlemen, artificial intelligence is here to stay and to be used to assist us, as has been the case with every major technology throughout human history.
- Like any new technology, AI poses risks and brings challenges.
- As a co-chair of the first UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance, alongside with El Salvador, Estonia has proudly brought its knowledge and experience in service of the UN and its member states.
- Personally, I had the honour to become one of the commissioners of AI for Good Global Commission this summer.
Australia · Anthony Albanese · Day 3 · 10 sentences
- Whether it is climate change or artificial intelligence, there is always the temptation to say that our generation is being confronted by issues that our predecessors could not possibly have imagined while dealing with the world they would not recognise.
- emerging technology, including artificial intelligence, which is evolving at a furious pace, and the breakdown of trust, civility, and social cohesion, which is promoting conflict within and between countries.
- The technological development that must now be the subject of public discussion is artificial intelligence.
- AI can improve lives, boost growth and productivity, provide revolutionary breakthroughs in healthcare and other fields.
Argentina · Javier Gerardo Milei · Day 2 · 9 sentences
- First, what this body should have done and failed to do, second, what it should not have done but did anyway, and third, its position in the face of the advent of artificial intelligence.
- And if for a moment we allow ourselves to believe that the lesson had been learned after so many failures, the arrival of artificial intelligence demonstrates quite something else.
- artificial intelligence or super intelligence as Donald Trump said can double our productivity in a way that we do not yet comprehend.
- To invoke Adam Smith, artificial intelligence will be the pin factory of the 21st century and much more besides.
Republic of Korea · Lee Jae Myung · Day 1 · 8 sentences
- First, The global AI universal basic society.
- The artificial intelligence revolution is both a massive opportunity and a crisis for humanity.
- It is the AI universal basic society where everyone can benefit from technological progress.
- The Republic of Korea is pursuing an AI transformation that will ensure stronger protection of human fundamental rights across fields such as social security, labor, housing, and culture, beginning with our AI universal basic health program.
Liechtenstein · Sabine Monauni · Day 4 · 8 sentences
- It is increasingly ignored or sidelined in efforts to address both the traditional and new challenges, such as the regulation of artificial intelligence.
- President, This week has also seen an intense debate on harnessing the potential of artificial intelligence.
- Reporting from the most powerful and well-capitalized AI companies tell us that we are on a precipice either of a technology-fueled utopia or an apocalypse.
- Whether we achieve one or the other, unfortunately, has been treated as a secondary priority to the AI race, one that has no clear finish line and, for that matter, a dubious prize.
Saint Kitts and Nevis · Geoffrey Hanley · Day 4 · 8 sentences
- Artificial intelligence offers extraordinary possibilities.
- But the AI divide also concern computing power, data research, skills, energy, cybersecurity, and capital.
- With the global AI market projected to reach US $4.8 trillion by 2033, developing countries cannot simply consume technologies designed and governed elsewhere.
- We must have a place where AI's future is decided.
Malawi · George Chapatula Chaponda · Day 6 · 8 sentences
- Mr. President, as we take steps to grab these opportunities, we must also recognize the emergence of artificial intelligence, which presents both opportunities and threats to humanity.
- Malawi welcomes the transformative potential for AI as an expression of human ingenuity and as an increasingly important tool for accelerating sustainable development.
- For developing countries, including Malawi, AI offers opportunities to strengthen agricultural productivity and food security, improve healthcare and education, enhance climate resilience and disaster preparedness, expand financial inclusion, and improve the efficiency of public service.
- Artificial intelligence should complement and enhance human capabilities rather than diminish the indispensable role of people in shaping their own development.
President of the General Assembly (opening) · Dr. Khalilur Rahman · Day 1 · 7 sentences
- Nowhere is the pace of change more evident today than in artificial intelligence.
- AI can be a powerful accelerator of human progress.
- At the same time, we must address AI's potential harms, including job losses and widening of the digital divide.
- We cannot also rule out the possibility that AI, particularly artificial general intelligence or AGI, could affect the very human survival.
Czechia · Petr Pavel · Day 2 · 7 sentences
- Mr. President, this is also the moment to confront the extraordinary pace of advances in artificial intelligence.
- The message from the UN's independent international scientific panel on AI, researchers in leading AI companies and independent experts is increasingly clear.
- AI can bring enormous benefits to humanity, but without effective safeguards, it can also cause immense harm.
- Nor we can allow an unchecked race for technological dominance to determine the future of AI with the pressure to move first, pushing safety, oversight, and responsibility aside.
Slovakia · Peter Pellegrini · Day 2 · 7 sentences
- If elected, Slovakia will focus on four priorities: international law and the UN Charter, accountable security institutions, the protection of strategic resources and critical infrastructure, and the security challenges linked to digitalization and artificial intelligence.
- I fully share the concern of the United Nations about the inequalities that can be created by unequal access to artificial intelligence.
- If AI is available only to a few, new divisions will appear.
- The growing use of AI-powered weapons and autonomous systems also requires urgent attention.
Barbados · Mia Amor Mottley · Day 3 · 7 sentences
- Artificial intelligence is opening extraordinary possibilities in health, education, science, and productivity, while also creating new risk of exclusion, exploitation, surveillance, and the distortion of truth.
- We equally now understand enough about the rapid development of AI to know that as we welcome its promise, we must anchor its development in a universal humanizing framework that does not imperil our existence as human beings.
- I'd like, sir, to turn to the topic of artificial intelligence, which is one of our new challenges.
- AI is already transforming how we work, learn, and govern.
European Union · António Costa · Day 3 · 6 sentences
- Alone, no country can prevent a pandemic, stabilize the climate, secure resilient supply chains, regulate artificial intelligence, ensure financial stability, or deliver sustainable development.
- Multilateralism equipped to address the defining challenges of today, peace, the climate emergency, economic insecurity, and artificial intelligence.
- On artificial intelligence and its governance, we need an accountable, transparent, and regulated architecture.
- We need an AI that serves humanity, not controls it.
Kazakhstan · Mukhtar Tileuberdi · Day 4 · 6 sentences
- Distinguished delegates, artificial intelligence and rapid technological change present another area where urgent international cooperation is needed.
- At home, we are investing in computing capacity, digital infrastructure, and AI skills.
- We are forging new trusted partnerships on AI governance and emerging technologies, and we have recently adopted law on artificial intelligence and new digital code.
- AI must remain human-centered, safe, and subject to meaningful human oversight.
Philippines · Ma. Theresa Lazaro · Day 5 · 6 sentences
- But the face to the digital revolution and to the rise of artificial intelligence, we stand at the dawn of an unprecedented technological era.
- Harnessed responsibly, Frontier technologies and AI can accelerate sustainable development, optimize resources, and bridge deep global divides.
- But AI also presents profound and systemic risks.
- We echo the growing call across industries that we need robust AI governance with enforceable standards, and we need it now.
Benin · Marc Hermanne Gninadoou Araba · Day 6 · 6 sentences
- AI is already transforming knowledge, work, our economies, education and information.
- Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, we must also prepare for the next great transformation, that of artificial intelligence, AI, which could become one of the greatest accelerators of human development.
- AI can broaden access to knowledge, improve health systems, support agricultural workers, and make state administrations more efficient.
- Having said that, AI can also amplify or exacerbate existing divides.
President of the General Assembly (closing) · Dr. Khalilur Rahman · Day 6 · 6 sentences
- Excellencies, While peace and security, human rights and sustainable development are perennial concerns in this hall, artificial intelligence, including artificial general intelligence, has moved from the margins of our discussions to the center.
- Four years ago, AI was raised in this hall by only five delegations.
- Leader after leader recognized the extraordinary potential of AI to transform public services, accelerate scientific discovery, advance sustainable development, and expand access to knowledge while pointing out potential risks arriving from it.
- Many framed AI as a question of governance.
Switzerland · Guy Parmelin · Day 1 · 5 sentences
- climate change and the increase in the number of disasters, humanitarian crises, inequalities, and also technological upheavals, notably artificial intelligence, which are often advancing faster than our collective ability to assess their implications.
- AI is the most obvious illustration of this.
- This means that as many countries and societies as possible must be able to benefit from advances in AI, develop their skills and contribute to the debate on the rules that will govern its development and use.
- This is Exactly the aim of the Geneva AI Summit, which will take place on the 21st and 22nd of June 2027 under the motto, "Bridging Innovation and Trust."
Poland · Karol Nawrocki · Day 2 · 5 sentences
- New technologies, such as artificial intelligence or superintelligence, should always serve humanity as they develop, rather than exploit people or their weaknesses.
- This raises the question of whether, in a world of advancing artificial intelligence, humans will remain subjects or become merely objects of algorithmic influence.
- That is why we need a serious conversation about the limits of artificial intelligence development.
- Artificial intelligence must not be used as a tool for destabilization, manipulation, or undermining the international order.
India · Subrahmanyam Jaishankar · Day 5 · 5 sentences
- Misuse of AI is sharpening bias and diluting mutual respect.
- An issue central to current global conversations is that of AI.
- India hosted the AI Impact Summit this February, gathering together the best minds on that subject.
- We view AI as a transformational driver for human empowerment, economic prosperity, and population-scale problem solving.
Tajikistan · Sirojiddin Muhriddin · Day 5 · 5 sentences
- Artificial intelligence is transforming our economies, our societies, and the way we approach development.
- As the Secretary-General recently reminded us, used well and shared widely, AI could compress decades of development into years.
- AI should not become another source of division.
- Last year, at the initiative of Tajikistan, the General Assembly adopted the resolution on the role of artificial intelligence in creating new opportunities for sustainable development in Central Asia.
Malaysia · Mohamad Haji Hasan · Day 5 · 5 sentences
- They have heard overt threat over use nuclear weapons, and they are seeing their government choose not to regulate AI and the many ways it is being abused, but instead give it more power.
- Artificial intelligence is changing how economies cooperate, how societies function, and how governments make decisions.
- The United Nations must continue to empower global south countries who are likely to be more greatly affected by an equitable AI development to participate in global discussion on AI.
- The global South cannot simply become a destination for data centers while decisions about AI are made elsewhere.
Angola · João Manuel Gonçalves Lourenço · Day 1 · 4 sentences
- We highlight his exemplary contribution as a man of dialogue an advocate of the United Nations Charter and international law, a tireless advocate of the need to protect the planet from harmful effects of climate change, and a champion of the global debate on global governance of artificial intelligence.
- The voice of Africans must be heard in all circumstances, at all times, in strategic decision-making processes on issues of peace, global security, financing for development as well as climate issues and global governance of artificial intelligence.
- Today, peoples and nations have an opportunity to make a qualitative leap in their overall living conditions through fair financing mechanisms for development and tools provided by artificial intelligence in order to improve education, health, agriculture, public service, scientific research and economic productivity.
- In this regard, I consider that the Global Digital Compact opens new prospects for cooperation to bridge the digital divide expand digital public infrastructure, promote training and innovation, strengthen cybersecurity, and build more inclusive, secure, and human-centered governance of artificial intelligence.
Bhutan · Tshering Tobgay · Day 1 · 4 sentences
- How would we use technology and especially artificial intelligence?
- advanced manufacturing, scientific research, artificial intelligence and data centers, clean renewable power.
- Artificial intelligence and human consciousness.
- Artificial intelligence and data center projects are moving forward, and nearly $5 billion in projects are under active negotiation.
Japan · Takaichi Sanae · Day 1 · 4 sentences
- While advances in AI bring tremendous opportunities for humanity, they also pose challenges, including those related to national security.
- Japan took the initiative to launch the Hiroshima AI Process, establishing the world's first international world's first international principles and code of conduct to govern generative AI.
- In parallel, Japan has been working with like-minded partners and Global South partners to co-create a safe, secure, and trustworthy AI ecosystem and will enhance cooperation on safety to respond to the risks of highly capable frontier AI.
- To accelerate these efforts, we intend to host an AI summit in Japan at the earliest opportunity.
Paraguay · Santiago Peña Palacios · Day 2 · 4 sentences
- It affects the microchips that power industry, defense, and artificial intelligence.
- No force in our time is as profound as artificial intelligence.
- Like a child, artificial intelligence repeats what it has learned from those who trained it.
- Artificial intelligence must serve human dignity and not replace it.
Ethiopia · Taye Atske-Selassie Amde · Day 2 · 4 sentences
- Mr. President, I would like to thank the Secretary-General for placing before us the defining imperatives of our era, namely artificial intelligence, the climate crisis, and deepening global inequalities.
- With regard to the digital revolution and artificial intelligence, Africa is compelled to ask a very defining question.
- Will the age of the AI become another instrument of global inequality, or will it be a catalyst for our collective growth?
- A case in point is Ethiopia's initiative of 5 million quarters program and the soon to be commissioned University of Artificial Intelligence reaffirms that our continent is ready to build the future.
Serbia · Aleksandar Vučić · Day 2 · 4 sentences
- Artificial intelligence is already changing the economy, education, medicine, security, the labor market, and the way states function.
- During our leadership cycle in the Global Partnership of Artificial Intelligence, which Serbia chaired in 2025, one of our priorities was to ensure that technological progress remained connected with security, human rights, the rule of law, accountability, and bridging the digital divide.
- The Belgrade Ministerial Declaration received the support of 44 member states in the European Union and affirmed the need for safe, sustainable, and human-centered artificial intelligence.
- We may have cutting-edge algorithms, quantum computers, unmanned systems, and artificial intelligence capable of processing in a matter of seconds.
Italy · Antonio Tajani · Day 2 · 4 sentences
- Ukraine, the Middle East, the Gulf, Sudan, the Sahel are not separate crises, nor are trade wars, AI competition, hybrid attacks, and their economic and social repercussions, nor is terrorism in all of its many forms, which we continue to fight in every corner of the world.
- It's the artificial intelligence revolution.
- Artificial intelligence is doing so in a matter of years.
- Artificial intelligence can open up possibilities that today are unimaginable in medicine, for example, research, education, manufacturing, and environmental protection.
Egypt · Moustafa Kamal Madbouly · Day 4 · 4 sentences
- Artificial intelligence opens boundless horizons for growth, knowledge, innovation, and improved services.
- Therefore, Managing this transformation requires the establishment of governance frameworks for artificial intelligence and emerging technologies on the basis that technology is a global public benefit and not an exclusive privilege enjoyed by a limited number of states or corporations.
- Artificial intelligence should also reflect the linguistic and cultural diversity of the world.
- Egypt has launched the second edition of its national artificial intelligence strategy 2025-2030.
Russian Federation · Sergey Lavrov · Day 5 · 4 sentences
- The UN shoulders a special responsibility given the fast-paced development of AI technologies.
- Generally recognized rules for the use of AI should be underpinned on an equal foundation with the participation of all countries.
- The start of the work of the Global Dialogue on AI Governance and the Independent International Scientific Panel on AI, we believe these are steps in the right direction.
- Russia supports China's initiative, that is the establishment of a global organization on AI cooperation.
Mali · Abdoulaye Diop · Day 6 · 4 sentences
- Mr. President, the world is experiencing extraordinary technological advances, including generative artificial intelligence.
- AI offers enormous opportunities, and we acknowledge that, but also significant risks.
- We must not simply consume AI technology.
- For this reason, the head of state of the Republic of Mali, Assimi Goita, has established Mali's Center for Artificial Intelligence Robotics to promote our country's digital sovereignty.
United States of America · Donald Trump · Day 1 · 3 sentences
- The United States also totally rejects any attempt to construct a globalist scheme to control for the artificial intelligence being spoken of so much now, hereinafter officially called super intelligence, changing the name, and that the use of the word artificial makes intelligence fake.
- These are the same people that are now saying that AI is going to kill us all, that robots are going to attack us, and that everything is going to be a total disaster.
- Whoever wins AI, you have to remember this.
Türkiye · Recep Tayyip Erdoğan · Day 1 · 3 sentences
- We are also facing the same risk with artificial intelligence, AI, which is becoming increasingly difficult to control.
- It is long overdue now to establish a common international legal framework for AI.
- It is crucial to accelerate the work which is already being carried out to draft and bring into force the UN International Convention on Artificial Intelligence.
Finland · Alexander Stubb · Day 1 · 3 sentences
- We need multilateralism in order to address our shared agenda, ranging from conflicts and climate change to sustainable development and artificial intelligence.
- Now, let me finish by saying that artificial intelligence is the most consequential technology in the history of mankind.
- This is why Norway and Finland have, together with leaders from nations around the world, launched a call for companies, governments, regional organizations, and the UN to develop mechanisms to control frontier AI models.
Trinidad and Tobago · Kamla Persad-Bissessar · Day 1 · 3 sentences
- And then we had talked about artificial intelligence and global security.
- Today, I want to agree with President Trump that we are now talking about a call for practical AI to be renamed super intelligence, SI.
- On the priority area of superintelligence and global security, Shrinanta Bager will encourage a greater consideration of the implications of SI and emerging technologies for international peace and security, including cyber attacks, disinformation and deepfakes, autonomous weapons, criminal misuse of AI, and threats to critical infrastructure.
Belgium · Maxime Prévot · Day 1 · 3 sentences
- Artificial intelligence already confronts us with another question.
- I'm thinking in particular of children who are growing up in a world where AI can open extraordinary possibilities but also creates new vulnerabilities.
- As AI sees in the digital world, freedom needs rules if it is to remain freedom.
Montenegro · Jakov Milatović · Day 2 · 3 sentences
- Climate change is testing the resilience of states and of societies, and artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies are creating risks at a speed that national frameworks alone cannot adequately address.
- And artificial intelligence will increasingly shape those possibilities.
- But AI presents not only an extraordinary opportunity, it also creates a responsibility to ensure that technological transformation remains human-centered and rights-based.
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) · Delcy Eloína Rodríguez Gómez · Day 2 · 3 sentences
Democratic Republic of the Congo · Judith Suminwa Tuluka · Day 2 · 3 sentences
- Artificial intelligence today offers one of the most striking examples of this.
- The DRC supports the UN global dialogue on AI governance, as well as the creation of a global capacity building fund.
- The energy transition, the electrification of transport, energy storage, as well as the expansion of digital and AI infrastructure are accelerating demand for copper, cobalt, lithium, nickel, and other critical minerals.
Uzbekistan · Saida Mirziyoyeva · Day 2 · 3 sentences
- I speak of artificial intelligence.
- Artificial intelligence must be inseparable from human rights, security, equal opportunity, and accountability.
- Today, in an era when social networks and artificial intelligence are spreading hatred and stereotypes at a rapid pace, it is important to remind this truth once again.
Côte d’Ivoire · Tiémoko Meyliet Koné · Day 3 · 3 sentences
- Added to this are the very real risks to the survival of humanity posed by the uncontrolled development of artificial intelligence.
- Artificial intelligence and the digital revolution are opening up considering opportunities in many areas of our contemporary world.
- In this regard, Cote d'Ivoire supports the efforts of the United Nations to promote the global governance of artificial intelligence that fosters innovation while protecting human dignity, international security, and sustainable development in a spirit of inclusion, ethics, and equitable sharing of the benefits of technological progress.
Nigeria · Kashim Shettima · Day 3 · 3 sentences
- We can deploy artificial intelligence to wage war or use it to transform healthcare, education, agriculture, governance, and economic productivity.
- Much of the anxiety surrounding AI reflects the distrust we have allowed to grow amongst us.
- We invite the world to augment resourceful and enterprising young people to direct AI towards humanity's advancement rather than its destruction.
Bangladesh · Tarique Rahman · Day 3 · 3 sentences
- We are entering a new era of artificial intelligence, biotechnology and science.
- We do not want today's digital divide to become tomorrow's artificial intelligence divide.
- It is now time for the United Nations to adopt an effective policy framework so that the benefits of the development and rapid expansion of artificial intelligence and social media can be harnessed positively across countries.
Maldives · Hussain Mohamed Latheef · Day 4 · 3 sentences
Monaco · Christophe Mirmand · Day 4 · 3 sentences
- Artificial intelligence is creating enormous opportunities for human development, But it also entails genuine risks.
- The Global Dialogue on AI Governance, which was held this year in Geneva, confirmed this.
- Monaco supports the implementation of the Global Digital Compact and a new normative framework on AI.
Solomon Islands · Matthew Cooper Wale · Day 4 · 3 sentences
- Mr. President, artificial intelligence and emerging technologies present both unprecedented opportunities and serious risks.
- The benefits of AI must be shared by all, Mr. President, not concentrated among a few.
- Solomon Islands therefore recognizes the need for an inclusive and transparent international governance framework on AI.
Mauritius · Dhananjay Ramful · Day 4 · 3 sentences
- Mr. President, the rapid evolution of digital and emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence, is already shaping economic, social and institutional developments across the globe.
- We support the General Assembly resolution establishing the global dialogue on AI governance and welcome the work being done by the independent international scientific panel on AI.
- We have launched, with UN support, a national artificial intelligence strategy and a national fintech strategy.
Norway · Espen Barth Eide · Day 4 · 3 sentences
- President, we live in an era of artificial intelligence.
- Artificial intelligence is developed by humans and must remain under human direction, oversight, and control.
- This week, Finland and Norway are appealing to businesses, governments, and the UN alike to cooperate for responsible management of the opportunities and the risks of artificial intelligence.
Belize · John Briceño · Day 5 · 3 sentences
- Artificial intelligence adds a further layer.
- And we have a global dialogue under this organization on the governance of artificial intelligence.
- She's a serious presence in artificial intelligence and the other technologies that will shape this century, and she has said plainly, that she is ready to share that expertise and those resources with the wider international community.
Saudi Arabia · Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud · Day 5 · 3 sentences
- In light of the rapid developments the world is witnessing in the field of artificial intelligence, the Kingdom stresses the importance of harnessing these technologies in the service of humanity and development and enhancing international cooperation to ensure their responsible use.
- The Kingdom has taken a leading role in establishing the International Network of Artificial Intelligence Capacity Building Centres, one of the recommendations emanating from the Pact for the Future.
- The Kingdom also hosts the International Centre for Research and Ethics in AI in Riyadh under the auspices of UNESCO, thereby strengthening international cooperation in this field and contributing to the consolidation of ethical principles governing the development and use of AI applications.
Iceland · Thorgerdur Katrín Gunnarsdóttir · Day 5 · 3 sentences
- Nor can we ignore another transformation already affecting our societies, artificial intelligence.
- But that does not require passivity when foreign states or other actors spread falsehoods, manipulate democratic processes, or use AI to deceive citizens at unprecedented speed and scale.
- Governments, scientists, businesses must cooperate internationally to harness the benefits of AI while confronting its risks, and we need to move faster.
Jamaica · Kamina Johnson Smith · Day 5 · 3 sentences
- New technologies, including artificial intelligence, offer extraordinary promise while presenting risks we have not yet fully understood.
- Jamaica sees digital transformation and responsible artificial intelligence as powerful tools.
- We must therefore not allow AI to deepen old inequalities and create an entirely new global divide.
Turkmenistan · Vepa Hajiyev · Day 6 · 3 sentences
- Artificial intelligence offers broad opportunities while also requiring responsible international governance to prevent its use and to detriment of peace, security, and trust.
- In this regard, Turkmenistan proposes the development under the auspices of the United Nations of an international code for the peaceful use of AI in international relations and diplomacy.
- To support this work, we propose convening in Ashgabat an international expert dialogue on digital trust and the responsible use of AI.
Vanuatu · Odo Tevi · Day 6 · 3 sentences
Brazil · Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva · Day 1 · 2 sentences
Chile · José Antonio Kast · Day 1 · 2 sentences
Luxembourg · Guillaume of Luxembourg · Day 1 · 2 sentences
Suriname · Jennifer Geerlings-Simons · Day 1 · 2 sentences
- Mr. President, Besides the expected economic and energy transition, we must also prepare for the transformation driven by artificial intelligence.
- But only if we can implement AI responsibly and controlled, Suriname will be able to benefit from the opportunities of this technology and mitigate its risks.
Sierra Leone · Julius Maada Bio · Day 1 · 2 sentences
Ukraine · Volodymyr Zelenskyy · Day 2 · 2 sentences
- We need to slow it down before we reach the next stage, because as early as next year, there is already a real possibility that AI, not only people, will begin will begin decide what happens on the battlefield.
- If you listen to some of the biggest believers in the development of AI, they say today AI still remains mostly digital, but one day AI will move from the digital world to shaping atoms.
Central African Republic · Faustin Archange Touadera · Day 2 · 2 sentences
Namibia · Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah · Day 2 · 2 sentences
- Namibia also takes cognizance of the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence in advancing human progress in line with the Global Digital Compact.
- However, We call for ethical, responsible, inclusive, and human-centered development and use of artificial intelligence with appropriate safeguard to ensure that technological advancement complements and enhance human capability rather than undermine it.
Eswatini · King Mswati III · Day 2 · 2 sentences
Andorra · Xavier Espot Zamora · Day 2 · 2 sentences
- Ladies and gentlemen, artificial intelligence represents one of the most profound transformations humanity has ever known.
- We must ensure that artificial intelligence expands opportunities rather than inequalities, that it protects human rights rather than putting them at risk, that it strengthens our democracies rather than weakening them, and that it preserves the cultural and linguistic diversity that is one of humanity's most valuable heritages.
Zimbabwe · Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa · Day 3 · 2 sentences
- Zimbabwe's National Artificial Intelligence Strategy 2026-2030 promotes human-centered, ethical, and responsible innovation.
- Artificial intelligence must narrow development gaps, while its military use, including in nuclear command and control must remain subject to human judgment, accountability, and international law.
Liberia · Joseph Nyuma Boakai · Day 3 · 2 sentences
Gambia (Republic of The) · Mohammed Jallow · Day 3 · 2 sentences
- Mr. President, artificial intelligence and emerging technologies offer extraordinary opportunities, but opportunity without inclusion can become another source of inequality.
- Technology must serve humanity, and the governance of artificial intelligence must be inclusive responsible, and grounded international cooperation.
Senegal · Bassirou Diomaye Diakhar Faye · Day 3 · 2 sentences
- Senegal also believes in the transformative potential of new technologies, including the development of AI that is based on robust morals and ethical code based on the principle of responsibility and inclusion.
- The launch of our first satellite illustrates our desire to make space, AI and digital tools instruments that serve and foster human development.
South Africa · Ronald Ozzy Lamola · Day 3 · 2 sentences
- We insist, Mr. President, that indeed, Africa must have a stake in shaping the rules that govern the development and the deployment of artificial intelligence.
- We have a youthful population ready to play a key role in the beneficiation at source of critical minerals and research and innovations for artificial intelligence.
Lebanon · Nawaf Salam · Day 4 · 2 sentences
Malta · Robert Abela · Day 4 · 2 sentences
Lesotho · Samuel Ntsokoane Matekane · Day 4 · 2 sentences
- As the first member state to pilot the UN Blueprint for National AI and Data Strategies from design into national implementation, Lesotho stands ready to share the lessons of that journey with fellow developing countries, particularly across Africa and among least developed and landlocked developing countries.
- We further stand ready to contribute our experience to emerging instruments such as the proposed Global Fund for AI capacity building, so that the compromise of artificial intelligence may be governed responsibly and shared equitably among all nations.
North Macedonia · Hristijan Mickoski · Day 4 · 2 sentences
Saint Lucia · Philip J. Pierre · Day 4 · 2 sentences
- We must ensure that artificial intelligence does not widen the gap between the powerful and the vulnerable.
- Saint Lucia therefore calls for strong global standards on data protection, privacy and artificial intelligence, equitable access to digital infrastructure, cybersecurity and affordable connectivity.
Togo · Robert Komlan Edo Dussey · Day 4 · 2 sentences
- We propose the opening of a new phase of international cooperation, bringing together the member state, the agency of United Nation, we say scientific and academic institution, geographer and cartographers, historian, educators, young people, and the innovators shaping the technologies of tomorrow, including artificial intelligence.
- The government also rely on special information and artificial intelligence system increasingly interpret our planet through digital data and cartographic representation.
Micronesia (Federated States of) · Aren Palik · Day 5 · 2 sentences
- We need the benefits of digital innovation, artificial intelligence, energy transition, and institutional reforms.
- Mr. President, digital transformation and artificial intelligence offer significant opportunities to improve public service delivery, diversify economies, expand markets, access, and advance climate-resilient development.
Algeria · Ahmed Attaf · Day 6 · 2 sentences
- Here we note the need to invest in the African person to build scientific and digital capacities so that artificial intelligence becomes a tool for development, not a new label for another development gap between the North and the South.
- We call for a balanced and responsible international regulation of artificial intelligence that would guarantee equitable access to its benefits, that would preserve the sovereignty of states, and that would transform this revolution into a shared opportunity rather than an exclusive privilege or monopoly in the hands of a few.
Sri Lanka · Vijitha Herath · Day 6 · 2 sentences
- We have developed national AI ethical guidelines in line with international frameworks.
- We must ensure that emerging technologies and artificial intelligence are developed and used responsibly and consistently with international law, including the well-established principles of international humanitarian law.
Grenada · Ingrid Jackson · Day 6 · 2 sentences
- Digital transformation and emerging technologies, particularly artificial intelligence, offer enormous possibilities for education, healthcare, agriculture, public administration, and economic development.
- As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly embedded in our economies and societies, we must develop credible AI governance frameworks that encourage innovation while protecting people, privacy, security, democratic values, and public trust.
Costa Rica · Boris Vasir Marchegiani Carrero · Day 6 · 2 sentences
Seychelles · Mathew Antonio Patrick Herminie · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Viet Nam · To Lam · Day 1 · 1 sentence
United Republic of Tanzania · Deogratius Ndejembi · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Croatia · Andrej Plenković · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Latvia · Edgars Rinkēvičs · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Romania · Nicuşor-Daniel Dan · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Timor-Leste · José Ramos-Horta · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Cyprus · Nikos Christodoulides · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Botswana · Duma Gideon Boko · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Ecuador · Daniel Roy-Gilchrist Noboa Azin · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Bulgaria · Iliana Iotova · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Mozambique · Daniel Francisco Chapo · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Spain · Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Guyana · Mohamed Irfaan Ali · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Comoros · Azali Assoumani · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Uruguay · Yamandú Orsi · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Israel · Benjamin Netanyahu · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Portugal · Luís Montenegro · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Kuwait · Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Netherlands (Kingdom of the) · Rob Jetten · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Austria · Beate Meinl-Reisinger · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Tuvalu · Feleti Teo · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Pakistan · Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Bahamas (the) · Philip Edward Davis · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Haiti · Alix Didier Fils-Aimé · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines · Godwin Friday · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Tonga · Lord Fakafanua · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Samoa · Mulipola Anarosa Ale Molioo · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Bahrain · Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani · Day 4 · 1 sentence
China · Han Zheng · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Republic of Moldova · Vasile Tofan · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Lao People’s Democratic Republic · Thongsavanh Phomvihane · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Cambodia · Sokhonn Prak · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Cuba · Bruno Eduardo Rodríguez Parrilla · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Belarus · Maxim Ryzhenkov · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Tunisia · Mohamed Ali Nafti · Day 5 · 1 sentence
San Marino · Luca Beccari · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Djibouti · Abdoulkader Houssein Omar · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Gabon · Marie-Édith Tassyla-Ye-Doumbeneny · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Canada · Anita Anand · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Sao Tome and Principe · Ilza Maria dos Santos Amado Vaz · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Cameroon · Lejeune Mbella Mbella · Day 5 · 1 sentence
El Salvador · Alexandra Hill Tinoco · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Congo · Constant Serge Bounda · Day 6 · 1 sentence
United Arab Emirates · Khalifa Shaheen Al Marar · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea · Kim Son Gyong · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Antigua and Barbuda · Walton Alfonso Webson · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Sudan · · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Democratic People's Republic of Korea · · Day 6 · 1 sentence