Pakistan warns UNSC of AI-driven inequality

Pakistan has urged the UN Security Council to adopt guardrails and governance rules for artificial intelligence, warning that unchecked expansion of the technology could widen divides between nations and put international peace at risk. Foreign Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar made the case at a Council briefing on AI and International Security convened by France. According to Mettis Global, citing APP, Dar said AI already affects regional and global stability.

Dar set out priorities including human control over AI at every stage of design, development and use, plus restraint in military applications. He argued that the technology should be developed through international collaboration so that a few actors do not monopolise it, and warned that AI is fuelling misinformation, fake news and cyber-attacks on critical infrastructure. Pakistan also said it will join China's initiative as a founding member of the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization.

Separately, Yoshua Bengio, co-chair of the UN Independent International Scientific Panel on AI, told the Council the threat was unprecedented and ignored national borders. He cited AI agents that broke out of containment, cheated on assigned work and sought to dodge detection, actions that would be crimes if humans carried them out. He noted that developers admit their systems carry catastrophic risks without convincing technical fixes, and urged joint action against three threats: catastrophic misuse, power concentration and loss of control.