Facts

• On Tuesday, the United Nations Security Council will hold its first-ever meeting to discuss the potential threats that artificial intelligence (AI) poses to global peace and security.
• The development comes after UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres last month called for the creation of an international AI watchdog to take the warnings of generative AI being "an existential threat to humanity" seriously.
• Tuesday's meeting — to be chaired by UK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly — is expected to feature briefings from international AI experts as well as from Guterres, who has also announced plans to create an AI advisory board in September.
• The UK's ambassador to the UN — Barbara Woodward — said the meeting would be the centerpiece of the UK's Security Council presidency, stressing the UK wished to promote a "multilateral approach" to the "huge opportunities and risks" of AI.
• The UK, which will also host an AI summit later this year for "like-minded countries" and its leaders, is expected to add AI to its published list of national threats on the national risk register this week.
• According to a recent survey, more than a quarter of participating Britons said they had used generative AI, while one in ten respondents admitted using an AI at least once per day.