UNESCO launches global consultation for 'ethics of AI' draft guidelines

To help build a draft resolution on how AI can be developed and deployed, UNESCO is seeking global policymakers and AI experts. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has said that there is an urgent need for a global instrument on the ethics of AI to ensure those who it is used by and used with are treated fairly and equally. Now it has announced the launch of a global online consultation led by a group of 24 experts in AI charged with writing a first draft on a'Recommendation on the Ethics of AI' document. It's hoped that UNESCO member states would adopt its recommendations by November 2021, thereby becoming the first global normative instrument to address the developments and applications of AI. If the recommendation is adopted, these nations will be invited to submit periodic reports every four years on the measures that they have adopted.