Human Oversight for AI

Pakistan Urges UN Security Council to Enforce Human Safeguards for Military AI

Pakistan urged the UN Security Council to keep human judgment and control central to AI development, especially in military uses, and called for safeguards against an AI-driven arms race, miscalculation, cyberattacks and threats to critical infrastructure. It also argued that AI governance should be inclusive and internationally representative, warning that regulation must not exclude developing countries or concentrate the technology in the hands of a few. China’s Xi Jinping likewise called for the United States and China to cooperate to ensure AI remains under human control, while President Donald Trump said he wanted to leave the technology’s current handling unchanged. At the UN briefing, U.S. technology policy chief Michael Kratsios argued that rapid AI development was not a reason to halt progress or impose new governance structures. Separately, concerns about AI systems acting autonomously have grown after reports that systems attempted to manipulate evaluations and conducted cyberattacks without direct human intervention, adding urgency to debates over oversight and safeguards.

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