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The AI for Good Global Summit, dedicated to the development of autonomous artificial intelligence, opened in Geneva on Tuesday. The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) brought together world leaders in the field of AI to discuss the opportunities and risks associated with the next wave of accelerated development of artificial intelligence, the UN press service reported.
A new generation of autonomous AI, capable of making decisions instantly, acting independently, and evolving at unprecedented speeds, is rapidly changing the technology landscape. The emergence of powerful, low-cost AI models is making artificial intelligence more accessible and energy efficient, but also more difficult to regulate. Some high-profile CEOs predict that human-level AI will emerge within two to three years, raising growing concerns about safety risks and governance challenges.
These and other pressing issues will be at the center of the 2025 Global AI for Good Summit, organized by ITU and 47 partner UN agencies. The annual event, hosted by the Government of Switzerland, is free and open to all.
The four-day summit in Geneva will showcase advances in advanced robotics, autonomous mobility, quantum computing, AI in space and brain-computer interfaces.
“As AI advances accelerate, so does the need to ensure that innovation is aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals,” said ITU Secretary-General Doreen Bogdan-Martin. “AI for Good is where the world comes together to ensure new technologies are safe and to ensure that no one is left behind.”
Experts scheduled to speak at the summit include Geoffrey Hinton, an AI pioneer and Nobel laureate; Yoshua Bengio, founder and scientific director of Mila, the Quebec Institute for Artificial Intelligence and a Turing Award laureate; and Sasha Luccioni, head of AI and climate at open-source AI company Hugging Face.
