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The commitment of this panel is not to any company, and not even to the countries we come from. It is to each other, and to humanity.
I flew into New York from my home in Manila for a little more than 24 hours. I landed near midnight on Friday, June 19, and finished writing my speech around 3 am. It was the first time we were doing anything like this: briefing member states of the United Nations about the status of the preliminary report on the technology that’s turning our world upside down.
By 9am, I was with my co-chair, Turing awardee Yoshua Bengio, and an hour later, we were taking questions from the governments of the world until one in the afternoon. We gave them a preview of what we had written, which we hand over to the Global Dialogue in Geneva in July. Then meetings inside the building until three, and a few hours later, I was on my way back to the airport.
Here’s why this is worth the trip.
