Earlier in the year, at the United Nation’s General Assembly, led by the US delegation and Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the US pushed for and built a coalition of more than 50 nations in support of ensuring equal access to AI, in the formulation of the first resolution on AI, which highlights, “the urgency of achieving global consensus on safe, secure and trustworthy artificial intelligence systems.”
The EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act while not all-encompassing, is also a good start. The highlight of the Act is its categorization of the types of AI, sorting by high- and low-risk systems and banning from the EU those focused on cognitive behavior manipulation or social scoring (the hallmark of China’s domestic effort to know their domestic population).
In addition, the Act prohibits “predictive policing based on profiling and systems that use biometric data to categorize people according to specific categories such as race, religion, or sexual orientation.”
