(MENAFN) On Wednesday, UK Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy urged unified efforts to guarantee that artificial intelligence (AI) is created and implemented responsibly, cautioning that the technology presents significant opportunities as well as serious risks.

Addressing the UN Security Council during an open debate on AI and international peace and security, Lammy cautioned, “We're staring at a technological frontier of astounding promise and power. No aspect of life, war or peace, will escape deep AI.”

Highlighting AI’s role in promoting global stability, he pointed to its capabilities in peacekeeping operations: “Analysis of situational data holds this promise for peacekeeping, ultra-accurate real-time logistics, ultra-accurate real-time sentiment analysis, and ultra-early warning systems.”

At the same time, Lammy warned that “the risk of deeper instability is immense,” welcoming the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ report on military AI as “an opportunity for collective understanding, for us to build new safeguards and guardrails and reaffirm international law as the bedrock of responsible use.”

On the environmental front, Lammy underscored the massive energy demands AI could impose: “On current trends, artificial intelligence could add the equivalent of a New Japan to world electricity consumption.” However, he also stressed AI’s promise to “utterly transform efficiency and power our green transitions.”

“We are crossing humanity's most profound technological frontier; our lives, our world, our politics, are about to be flooded with super-powerful AI,” Lammy said, affirming the UK’s dedication to “using AI responsibly, safely, legally and ethically together.”

He concluded by urging all UN member states to act decisively so that AI “strengthens peace and security.”

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