Hello from my seat on a plne about to leave for Manila! Flew into NY at midnight Friday, June 19. Finished writing the speech I delivered to the UN General Assembly on Friday at 3am, napped an hour. Then went to meet my co-chair, Turing Awardee Yoshua Bengio. We spent 4 hours at the UN briefing member states on the status of the independent international scientific panel on artificial intelligence: 3 hours with member countries, another hour with UN officials, including president Annalena Baerbock. I think there’s common ground https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k18/k18733sot4

Good morning from the outskirts of Rome, where we're meeting at Pope Leo's Castel Gandolfo. This follows a week in Geneva, where the UN's Independent International Scientific Panel on Artificial Intelligence handed our report to the world's countries - a whirlwind week where we spoke with ministers, answered their questions, and gave them the facts: https://www.un.org/independent-international-scientific-panel-ai/en/preliminary-report Especially read UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres' remarks where he says this may be humanity's last chance to determine the course of our future against the machines (paraphrase - he said it more elegantly) and our co-chair's message.