Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addresses the eightieth session of the United Nations Basic Meeting, Wednesday.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned world leaders in regards to the risks of a man-made intelligence-driven conflict in a stark deal with to the U.N. Basic Meeting on Wednesday.
“It’s only a matter of time, not much, before drones are fighting drones, attacking critical infrastructure and targeting people all by themselves, fully autonomous and no human involved, except the few who control AI systems,” Zelenskyy mentioned.
“We are now living through the most destructive arms race in human history because this time, it includes artificial intelligence.”
His deal with got here at a time of heightened alarm in Europe after current Russian drone incursions into a few of NATO’s japanese member states, which raised fears of a regional spillover from Russia’s 3 1/2-year-old, full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
“Ukraine is only the first and now Russian drones are already flying across Europe, and Russian operations are already spreading across countries, and Putin wants to continue this war by expanding it,” Zelenskyy mentioned.
The speech additionally got here a day after President Trump made one other shift in his place on the conflict in Ukraine.
“After getting to know and fully understand the Ukraine/Russia Military and Economic situation and, after seeing the Economic trouble it is causing Russia, I think Ukraine, with the support of the European Union, is in a position to fight and WIN all of Ukraine back in its original form,” Trump wrote on his Reality Social platform.
That is a reversal from the place expressed beforehand by the Trump administration that Kyiv would want to surrender a few of its territory to Moscow — corresponding to Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014 — to finish the conflict.
Trump met with Zelenskyy on the sidelines of the U.N. Basic Meeting on Tuesday. Requested by a reporter throughout the assembly if Trump thinks NATO members ought to shoot down Russian plane that violates their airspace, the U.S. president responded: “Yes, I do.”
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