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Secretary-General's remarks to the opening of the first Global Dialogue on Artificial Intelligence Governance

2026.07.06 | António Guterres, Secretary-General

https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/sg/statements/2026-07-06/secretary-generals-remarks-the-opening-of-the-first-global-dialogue-artificial-intelligence-governance-delivered

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* AI가 전례 없는 속도로 사회를 변화시키고 있지만, 안전·권력 집중·허위정보라는 심각한 위험을 동반하는 만큼 모든 국가가 함께 참여하는 글로벌 거버넌스를 통해 책임 있게 관리해야 한다고 강조. 특히 아동 보호를 포함한 공통의 안전 기준과 국제 협력을 마련해 AI를 인류 모두를 위한 기술로 만들어야 함

Glossary 

1. Global Dialogue on AI Governance: 글로벌 AI 거버넌스 대화 

2. Co-Chairs of the Independent International Scientific Panel on Artificial Intelligence: 인공지능에 관한 독립 국제 과학 패널 (IISP-AI) 공동의장

Excellencies, distinguished delegates, dear friends,

Artificial intelligence is advancing at runaway speed. 

A technology that can reshape economies, transform the world of work, sway elections, and tilt the balance of security is being deployed faster than anyone – including the people building it – can keep up. 

An experiment is being run on our own societies – without a plan, and without consent.

That is not sustainable.  And it is not acceptable.

AI is already transforming our world.

The question is whether we will shape this transformation together – or let it shape us.

And today, that question has an answer – right here, at this Global Dialogue on AI Governance.

For the first time, every country has a seat at the table.

And we have a shared base of evidence.

This morning, the Co-Chairs of the Independent International Scientific Panel on Artificial Intelligence will present their first report.

Forty leading experts, from every region and across disciplines;

Serving in their personal capacity – independent of any government, any company, any institution.

The science carries three warnings.

The first is about speed.

The internet took fifteen years to reach a billion people.

AI got there in two.

And these systems are no longer tools awaiting instruction – they are writing code, acting online, and making choices with less and less human oversight.

Our institutions were built to govern machines that follow commands.

They are not ready for machines that decide.

And some lines, once crossed, cannot be uncrossed.

The second warning is about power.

The computing power, the data and the talent behind the most advanced systems are concentrated in a handful of companies, and in a handful of countries.

Most nations – including many developing countries – have had no say in decisions that will shape their futures.

The longer we wait, the harder that concentration sets.

When power imbalances are hard-wired into technology, inequality becomes part of the code. 

The third warning is about truth.

A machine-enabled lie can now persuade as effectively as the truth – and authentic evidence can be dismissed as fake.

Further eroding the integrity of our information ecosystem and undermining trust. 

A society that cannot agree on what is real cannot defend itself.

So dear friends,

The warnings are real.

But so is the potential.

Because the same technology, built with purpose, is already changing lives for good.

A mother in a rural clinic has her scan read in minutes – and her cancer caught in time.

A child keeps learning beyond the classroom – with a tutor that never tires.

All of this is happening today – often in places the headlines rarely reach.

And it points to something profound.

For all of human history, expertise has been held by too few people, in too few places, at too high a price.

Penicillin took decades to reach the villages that needed it most.

Electricity took a century – and is still arriving.

Artificial intelligence does not have to wait.

Used well, and shared widely, AI could compress decades of development into years.

It could become the great equalizer of the twenty-first century.

But no future builds itself.

And so the choice before us is not between faith in AI or fear of it.

It is between governing by design – and drifting by default.

Excellencies,

Let me name four priorities for the road ahead.

First, safety.

When countries align on how to test systems, measure risk and assign responsibility, safety travels with the technology. 

When they do not, a patchwork of incompatible rules raises costs, divides the world – and protects no one.

We need common baselines for frontier systems.

Common methods to eval‎uate and verify risks.

And common resolve that systems with global reach must meet standards worthy of global trust.

Nowhere does safety matter more than for those least able to protect themselves – our children.

We do not let medicine reach a child until it is proven safe. 

We test every toy. 

Yet AI has reached our children – their learning, their friendships, their most private questions – before anyone asked what it would do to them.

And we are already seeing the cost: 

Children deceived by machines posing as friends. 

Children steered toward self-harm.

Children violated by abuse images made at the touch of a button.

No child should be a guinea pig for unregulated AI.