Über 200 Wissenschaftler und Staatsoberhäupter, darunter 10 Nobelpreisträger, haben einen dringenden Aufruf zur bindenden internationalen KI „roten Linien“ bei der UN veröffentlicht und vor „beispiellosen Gefahren“ gewarnt.

„Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa announced the letter in her opening speech at the United Nations General Assembly’s High-Level Week on Monday morning. She implored governments to come together to “prevent universally unacceptable risks” from AI and to “define what AI should never be allowed to do.”

The open letter is the first to feature Nobel Prize winners from a wide range of scientific disciplines.

As a sign of the effort’s feasibility, the statement points to similar international resolutions that established red lines in other dangerous arenas, like prohibitions on biological weapons or ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons.

Warnings about AI’s potentially existential threats are not new. In March 2023, more than 1,000 technology researchers and leaders, including Elon Musk, [called for a pause](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/29/technology/ai-artificial-intelligence-musk-risks.html) in the development of powerful AI systems. Two months later, leaders of prominent AI labs, including OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei and Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis, [signed a one-sentence statement](https://aistatement.com/) that advocated for treating AI’s existential risk to humanity as seriously as threats posed by nuclear war and pandemics.“