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Singapore proposes a United Nations convention covering AI safeguards
Singapore used its national statement to the 81st UN General Assembly to propose negotiating a United Nations framework convention covering AI safeguards. Foreign minister Vivian Balakrishnan argued the UN is the only top-level institution with universal membership, and said safeguards must keep pace with capability: rigorous testing and evaluation before deployment, limits on what autonomous systems may do, and ways to step in when they act unexpectedly.