UNIDIR Plans Military AI Forum With Switzerland, Pakistan

The UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) plans to launch a forum on artificial intelligence and international peace and security on October 22, director Robin Geiss said at an October 20 UN briefing. Switzerland and Pakistan are partners in the initiative, which UNIDIR describes as a multi-stakeholder forum focused on AI in security and the military domain. ^[1]

Geiss also outlined three related efforts: developing voluntary guidelines for responsible industry behavior; creating an AI security lexicon to clarify terms that countries may understand differently; and convening a discussion with the UN Institute for Training and Research on possible misuse of AI by non-state armed groups. The guidelines and lexicon are still in development, while the discussion is intended to identify gaps and possible measures. ^[1]

The source is an automatically generated transcript, which the UN says is not an official record; it also warns that the transcript was made from an earlier, longer audio version and may not match the available playback. The initiatives and claims are therefore attributed to Geiss, rather than presented as independently verified findings. ^[1]