Artificial Intelligence: 'What we do with it is now up to all of us' - UN Chief | United Nations

Introducing the Preliminary Report of the Independent International Scientific Panel on Artificial Intelligence, Secretary-General António Guterres (1 Jul) said, “the science is here. We can no longer say we did not know. What we do with it is now up to all of us.” Guterres told reporters in New York that the report “is honest about the extraordinary promise of this technology.” Used well, he said, “AI could be the most powerful engine for development, speeding the world's progress on everything from health and hunger to learning and climate,” but warned that the Panel was “just as clear eyed about the harm artificial intelligence can cause.” The Secretary-General said, “the more AI advances without shared rules, the less say governments and people will have in the outcome.” He stressed that “this is a preliminary report” and the Panel “will keep working as the technology evolves.” Joining via video teleconference, Panel Co-Chair Maria Ressa said, “what you are receiving is the floor of our concern, not the ceiling. You know when you get 40 scientists from 40 different contexts and you have to make them agree, you don't drift toward the most alarming claim. You build toward the centre.” Ressa said, “the most contested findings demand the most evidence and the most negotiation. So, everything in this report cleared that bar. It is the minimum we all agree on. And that is alarming enough.” She said, “without facts, you can't have truth. Without truth, you can't have trust. Without these three, we don't have a shared reality. We have no democracy. That's the trend we're seeing, right? That is not speculation. It is in the report with the evidence attached. But we're not telling you the future is written because it isn't.” The other Co-Chair, Yoshua Bengio said, “the decisions we're making today about I will have lasting consequences for individuals, businesses, institutions, democracy, and maybe more than that, our goal here is to help understand AI’s, opportunities, risks, and impacts.” Bengio said, “there's still no known technical guarantees that AI would follow our instructions, norms, or laws. And instead, as she mentioned, growing evidence to the contrary, including AI acting deceptively.” On the other hand, he continued, “it wasn't also the case that I was unlocking useful applications across domains like health, agriculture, science, while its adoption and its benefits, are accelerating unevenly across countries and sectors.” As AI capabilities continue to grow, Bengio said, “the gap between the haves and the have nots is likely to grow,” and added that “to realise the full benefits of AI while minimising its risk, we need to tackle all of these issues and it has to be at the international level because AI, and in particular it's misuses like cyber-attacks, are not limited by borders.” Responding to a journalist’s question, he said, “there are ways to develop AI that will be heavily focussed on, honest answers and factuality. It may not be the most profitable way to develop AI, but it is possible to make those choices collectively. We can choose in which direction we can take the technology. That technology is not some God given thing. It is developed by humans under societal rules and incentives.” The first global dialogue on AI governance will be held in Geneva on 6–7 July.


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UN Budget & Finances - Press Conference | United Nations

UN Controller Chandramouli Ramanathan told reporters that on Tuesday (30 Jun), the Member States approved a budget of $5.1 billion for peacekeeping, “which is about $550 million less than last year, which is a 9.7 percent reduction.” “About 1,100 civilian posts also being reduced,” he added. Asked about the two biggest financial contributors of the UN, Ramanathan said that on the regular budget, “China owes us another US dollars 428 million, which we expect them to pay maybe in September and December into installments.” “The US also was assessed US dollars 767 million. They paid 160. We've been told that they were planning to make a payment in April and July. The April payment didn't happen, so they are still telling us that the payment is on its way and we are expecting a payment.” The Controller also said, “our assumptions are based on collections from both of them, if either of them doesn't pay in time, we have a little bit of a crisis in September, but if they don't pay at all or pay a less than their original amount, then we have a little bit of a challenge at the end of the year. But even if both of them pay, we're going to end the year with pretty much our cash gone.” Ramanathan also emphasized that the new methodology “prevents a crash” but “it does not do away with all the problems.” He said, “the expectation should not be that suddenly we are in a great shape and we're going. No, we have prevented a crash. We ensure that the boat can get to the coast. It does not mean that it's strong enough now to keep sailing because it still has problems. It is still vulnerable to any nonpayment.” The UN ended 2025 with a record high of $1.6 billion in unpaid assessments, according to the Secretary-General latest report on the Organization’s financial status, issued in May. Overall arrears across the regular budget, peacekeeping and two international tribunals exceed $6.5 billion. At the beginning of this year, the UN implemented strict cash conservation measures to both reduce and slow expenditures. Until Tuesday night (30 Jun), the financial rules, established 80 years ago, required the UN to give back any unspent funds to Member States as credits against future assessments. This applied even when underspending results from late contributions or from funds that were never received.


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US-Iran Ceasefire Strains as Attacks Hit Bahrain and Kuwait - Briefing | United Nations

Addressing a Security Council emergency session as a fragile US-Iran ceasefire came under renewed strain following fresh military exchanges, Assistant Secretary-General Elizabeth Spehar said, “residential areas, ports, energy facilities, commercial vessels and maritime personnel must be protected” and “merchant shipping should not be used as a tool of pressure.” The military exchanges have reportedly included in recent days attacks by Iran on Bahrain and Kuwait.


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