A new international body should be established to oversee AI development and ensure it remains under human control.

Ahead of UNGA 81, the Stimson Center noted that UN Secretary-General António Guterres named 'runaway artificial intelligence' among three existential threats facing humanity. With advanced AI development concentrated in a small number of companies and countries, the debate is whether a new international institution is needed to keep powerful systems under meaningful human control, or whether existing national regulators and voluntary frameworks are enough.