A Kuwait-chaired UNESCO ad hoc committee endorsed Friday the final draft text of the Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Kuwait’s delegate to the UN organization and the Chairperson of the UNESCO intergovernmental special committee meeting of technical and legal experts Dr. Adam Al-Mulla told KUNA that the committee had ratified the draft text today at the conclusion of its second meeting which lasted for five days.
He said the approved text, the first of its kind, will serve as an ethical guiding compass and a global normative bedrock to respect the rule of law in the digital world.
Al-Mulla noted that 300 experts from 102 countries and 49 observers have participated in the meeting.
The text will be submitted to member states for adoption at the 41st UNESCO General Conference in November 2021, he pointed out.
UNESCO efforts to write and negotiate an international code of ethics for artificial intelligence had begun in November 2019.
According to the UNESCO, the negotiated text aims to find international and national policies and regulatory frameworks to ensure that artificial intelligence technologies benefit humanity as a whole.
It stressed that the world needs a human-centered artificial intelligence to be used for the greater interest of the people, not the other way around.
The UNESCO believes that the development of a comprehensive global standard-setting instrument would provide artificial intelligence with a strong ethical basis, that will not only protect but also promote human rights and human dignity.
Source: Kuwait News Agency