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The United Nations<\/a> is convening this week a global gathering to try to map out the frontiers of artificial intelligence and to harness its potential for empowering humanity.<\/p>\n The UN hopes to lay out a clear blueprint on the way forward for handling AI<\/a>, as development of the technology races ahead the capacity to set its boundaries.<\/p>\n The “AI for Good Global Summit<\/a>“, being held in Geneva on Thursday and Friday, will bring together around 3,000 experts from companies like Microsoft<\/a> and Amazon<\/a> as well as from universities and international organisations to try to sculpt frameworks for handling AI.<\/p>\n “This technology is moving fast,” said Doreen Bogdan-Martin, head of the International Telecommunication Union, the UN’s information and communications technology agency that convened the summit.<\/p>\n “It’s a real opportunity for the world’s leading voices on AI to come together on the global stage and to address governance issues,” she told reporters.<\/p>\n “Doing nothing is not an option. Humanity is dependent upon it. So we have to engage and try and ensure a responsible future with AI.”<\/p>\n She said the summit would examine possible frameworks and guardrails to support safe AI use.<\/p>\n Listed participants include Amazon’s chief technology officer Werner Vogels, Google<\/a> DeepMind chief operating officer Lila Ibrahim and former Spain football captain Iker Casillas — who suffered a heart attack in 2019 and now advocates for AI use in heart attack prevention.<\/p>\n They will be joined by dozens of robots, including several humanoids like Ai-Da, the first ultra-realistic robot artist; Ameca, the world’s most advanced life-like robot; the humanoid rock singer Desdemona; and Grace, the most advanced healthcare robot.<\/p>\n