European lawmakers, Nobel winners, and ex-leaders urged binding international rules to restrict AI’s most dangerous uses.
They launched the campaign Monday at the UN’s 80th General Assembly in New York.
The initiative calls for governments to set “red lines” by 2026, banning AI practices that threaten humanity.
Signatories include Enrico Letta, Mary Robinson, MEPs Brando Benifei and Sergey Lagodinsky, ten Nobel laureates, and tech leaders.
They warned that unregulated AI could produce pandemics, disinformation, human rights abuses, and loss of human control.
Over 200 prominent individuals and 70 organisations from politics, science, and industry signed the appeal.
Mental Health and AI Risks
Researchers found chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude, and Google Gemini gave inconsistent or unsafe responses to suicide questions.
Experts warned these gaps could worsen mental health crises and have contributed to several deaths.
Maria Ressa said AI could create “epistemic chaos” and enable systematic human rights violations without safeguards.
Yoshua Bengio stressed that the race to build powerful models poses dangers societies cannot manage.
Toward a Binding International Treaty
Backers want an independent body to implement rules and prevent irreversible harm.
They proposed banning AI from launching nuclear attacks, performing mass surveillance, or impersonating humans.
Supporters argued national or EU rules alone cannot control a technology that crosses borders by design.
They hope UN negotiations could start by the end of 2026 to create a worldwide AI treaty.
