UN’s digital agency launches an initiative to make AI agents trustworthy
The United Nations’ digital agency has decided that AI agents are moving faster than anyone’s ability to trust them, and it wants to do something about it. On 9 July, the International Telecommunication Union used its AI for Good Summit in Geneva to launch an initiative aimed at keeping increasingly autonomous AI systems identifiable, accountable and under meaningful human control.
The mechanism is a focus group, the ITU’s standard vehicle for gathering experts before any formal standard exists. Its job will be to develop frameworks for AI agents that can be recognised for what they are, trusted to act within limits, and kept answerable to the people they act for.
The concern driving it is specific rather than abstract. AI agents are designed to act independently on a user’s behalf, handling everything from scheduling to complex business processes, which means they can also impersonate people and take decisions no one...
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