Development
AI and digital governance at UNGA 81
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Speeches that raised ai and digital governance
Secretary-General of the United Nations · Day 1António GuterresTrust has frayed.
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.
These are not separate crises.
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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland · Day 1Andy BurnhamWe need to work harder to fight the forces of division and instability which threaten us.
Not just through hard power, but through softer, slower means that sow fear and despair.
We need to do more to help people with the everyday cost of living and seize the opportunities that give them hope for the future.
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France · Day 1Emmanuel MacronToday's challenges, future challenges, ones we do not know about yet, challenges we haven't yet tackled.
I talked about the climate.
It also applies to war and peace, new technologies, and development across all of these areas.
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United States of America · Day 1Donald TrumpAnd we want to remain a sovereign nation, and so should you.
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.
It makes it sound fake, and it is not fake.
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President of the General Assembly (opening) · Day 1Dr. Khalilur RahmanHateful narratives are spreading like wildfire across borders and into homes at unprecedented speed and scale.
They target women and girls, minorities, migrants, refugees and persons with disabilities, often for political gain.
New and emerging technologies are used to amplify lies, manipulate public debate, spread hatred, and give incitement to violence faster and farther than ever before.
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Lithuania · Day 1Gitanas NausėdaRussia has also intensified hybrid attacks, disinformation, and sabotage efforts.
Where Russia advances, opening Pandora's box of new techniques for destabilization, other hostile actors follow, learning new skills and ideas.
Ladies and gentlemen, attacks on information integrity pose an especially troubling challenge to every society.
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Switzerland · Day 1Guy ParmelinCooperation is not about imposing one's own values or a single model.
It is valuable when it creates partnerships, facilitates the sharing of expertise and strengthens everyone's capacity to act independently.
It is less about doing things for others than doing things with them.
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Bhutan · Day 1Tshering TobgayHow would we attract the best talent?
How would we use technology and especially artificial intelligence?
How would we create wealth while protecting nature?
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Brazil · Day 1Luiz Inácio Lula Da SilvaAccess to our minerals will be contingent upon mandatory value generation in our territory, technology transfer, and the supply of strategic national sectors.
Mr. President, we are living through unprecedented technological revolution with great risks and opportunities.
it would be an unforgivable historical omission not to address the challenge of regulating the big techs and artificial intelligence.
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Chile · Day 1José Antonio KastThere needs to be a multilateralism that is effective and efficient.
And allow me to say that the reforms I talked about cannot wait.
While we discuss how to modernize institutions created in 1945, we're seeing the emergence of the most powerful technology that humankind has ever known, and no one is governing it.
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Republic of Korea · Day 1Lee Jae MyungWe will harness that power to address the common challenges facing all of humanity.
To that end, allow me to set out the three visions of the K-Initiative toward fulfilling this commitment.
First, The global AI universal basic society.
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Finland · Day 1Alexander StubbTogether, the UN and its member states can accomplish what neither can achieve alone.
The UN needs to be at the center of rulemaking and institution building.
Regional integration and thematic coalitions can and should support it.
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Luxembourg · Day 1Guillaume of LuxembourgI am fully aware of the difficulties confronting us.
But precisely because the world is becoming more difficult, I believe we must resist the temptation to give up on cooperation.
There has never been a time when communication between people in different parts of the world was so easy.
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Türkiye · Day 1Recep Tayyip ErdoğanWe believe that the path to this lies in joint development, solidarity and connectivity.
societies connected to one another through roads, trade, with energy networks and joint production will eventually be united in peace and stability as well.
And lastly, by promoting a human-centered approach to technology, we must prevent new barriers from being built between those who possess technology and those who do not.
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Viet Nam · Day 1To Lamglobal progress, must uphold the spirit of humanity in relations among nations, safeguard their legitimate interests, and respect differences in history, culture, and development conditions.
Third, we must proactively shape technology governance so that progress serves humanity in our common development.
Science, technology, digital transformation, and artificial intelligence are opening up unprecedented opportunities.
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Trinidad and Tobago · Day 1Kamla Persad-BissessarWe intend to place particular emphasis on the curbing of the illicit trafficking of small arms and light weapons.
Another pillar on which we had campaigned and we intend to commit to is women and children, as well as peace and security.
And then we had talked about artificial intelligence and global security.
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Japan · Day 1Takaichi SanaeThere are also challenges arising from technological innovation.
While advances in AI bring tremendous opportunities for humanity, they also pose challenges, including those related to national security.
We also urgently need measures to tackle the spread of information not based on facts, as well as the spread of propaganda.
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Belgium · Day 1Maxime PrévotProtecting those connections is essential.
But our responsibility in the digital world doesn't end with infrastructure.
Artificial intelligence already confronts us with another question.
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Jordan · Day 1Abdullah II ibn Al HusseinEvery day brings another crisis, another tragedy, another emergency demanding our attention.
One study shows that average screen attention has fallen from 2.5 minutes in 2004 to just 47 seconds today.
Of course, a screen is not the world.
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Angola · Day 1João Manuel Gonçalves LourençoThese challenges are inherently complex and further exacerbated by climate change, which has a severe impact on Africa with severe and prolonged droughts, floods, desertification, food insecurity and population displacement.
This situation clearly illustrates the need to establish predictable, affordable and additional climate financing without further aggravating the debt of developing countries.
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.
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Suriname · Day 1Jennifer Geerlings-SimonsAdditionally, we will need to improve our energy security.
And although we are preparing for gas to shore and gas to energy, renewable energy will be part of our national energy mix.
Mr. President, Besides the expected economic and energy transition, we must also prepare for the transformation driven by artificial intelligence.
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Sierra Leone · Day 1Julius Maada BioA gas future, like the future of every young person, will be shaped by forces already remaking our world, climate change, artificial intelligence, and the energy transition.
The meaning of for all becomes more urgent as we decide how these transformations will be governed.
Artificial intelligence can improve, of course, education, health, agriculture, and public administration.
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Dominica · Day 1Sylvanie BurtonWe are living through an age of profound transformation.
Technology is changing how we work, communicate, and understand the world.
Climate change is reshaping economies, communities, and entire ecosystems.
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Seychelles · Day 1Mathew Antonio Patrick HerminieLooking ahead, we must also address the rapid rise of artificial intelligence and emerging technologies.
Whilst these tools offer immense opportunities for development and ocean management, They also risk widening the global divide and enabling new forms of warfare and cybercrime.
We must ensure technology serves human dignity.
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Croatia · Day 1Andrej PlenkovićNo country alone can successfully respond to the global transformations we witness today.
Artificial intelligence can accelerate development, but its use must remain consistent with legal frameworks, human dignity and democratic accountability.
Renewed nuclear rhetoric makes a firm commitment to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons more important than ever.
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