The decision begins by recognizing each the potential and peril of AI. When used correctly, a number of the potential advantages, as listed within the decision, embody accelerating the achievement of the UN’s 17 Sustainable Improvement Targets, selling digital transformation and peace, overcoming digital divides inside nations, and extra. 

Nevertheless, malicious “design, improvement, and deployment” of AI programs might have catastrophic results together with undermining sustainable financial, social, and environmental improvement; widening digital divides; reinforcing biases that encourage discrimination; and extra. 

In consequence, the decision stresses the urgency of attaining “international consensus on protected, safe and reliable synthetic intelligence programs…” 

The decision delineates the assorted measures that must be taken to make sure correct safeguards and that folks’s rights are protected. These embody a name for worldwide cooperation for the promotion of protected, safe, and reliable AI; continued improvement and help from member states for regulatory and governance frameworks; insurance coverage of equitable entry to the know-how throughout nations; respect for human rights and their basic freedoms; truthful, inclusive, and accountable use of knowledge; and extra.