My letter to the editor of the Washington Post about AGI and the UN Security Council was published on line today and will be in print on Saturday: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/14/security-council-address-broadness-ai/

On July 18, the United Nations Security Council will address [apnews.com] security issues posed by artificial intelligence. I worry the council will talk about only ChatGPT, GPT-4 and other current forms of artificial narrow intelligence. What we really need is a serious set of security talks on artificial general intelligence [wired.com], which could be developed in five to 10 years.

If we don’t have an international regulatory system of rules, guardrails, continuous audits and the like in place before artificial general intelligence arrives, then artificial super intelligence [techtarget.com] could emerge, not to our liking.

Jerome Glenn, Washington

The writer is a member of the IEEE SA P2863 working group on organizational AI governance and chief executive of the Millennium Project think tank.

Jerry