This organisation would operate from a pool of government funding. This UNAIRO could focus on building AI technologies in the public interest, including to help meet international targets such as the 2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as called for by the 2018 UN Secretary-General’s Strategy on New Technologies (Guterres, 2018). A secondary goal could be to conduct basic research on improving AI techniques in the safest, careful and responsible environment possible. The goal would be to channel AI talent towards cooperation in creating technologies for global benefit.
