20 countries and the European Union have called for global cooperation to tackle the growing threat of artificial intelligence and keep it under human supervision.

These countries, including Germany, South Africa, Canada, Australia, the United Arab Emirates and Singapore, have proposed in a joint declaration to create a common global standard for artificial intelligence, share information about serious security incidents with each other and consider the establishment of an international monitoring body.

The declaration states that artificial intelligence must be developed in accordance with international law and must retain human direction, oversight and authority.

The declaration was signed by German Chancellor Friedrich Merts, Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gaarder, European Commission President Ursula van der Leyen, Kenyan President William Ruto, Kazakh President Qasim Jomart Tukaif and Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan among other leaders.

It should be noted that the 2 major powers in the field of artificial intelligence, America and China, are not included in this declaration.

India, South Korea, Japan, UK and France are also not among the signatories.

The announcement comes at a time when there is a global debate on the rapid development of artificial intelligence and the risks associated with it.

Anthropic chief Dario Amodeo called this month to slow the pace of artificial intelligence development, which was supported by other technology leaders including OpenAI chief Sam Altman and Elon Musk.

OpenAI also called on the United States to lead international efforts to create global technical standards for advanced artificial intelligence.

An independent international scientific panel backed by the United Nations has also stressed the need for new security measures, saying the July cyber attack on hacking Facebook by artificial intelligence highlighted the weaknesses of existing security systems.