Experts Call for AI That Serves the Needs of All Humanity

At the start of the discussion, moderator Andrey Neznamov, Managing Director of Sberbank’s Center for Human-Centric AI and a member of the UN Independent International Scientific Panel on AI, presented a book compiling ethical questions related to cognitive technologies. When the book was published in 2025, he said, it covered 42 such questions. This year, the number had grown to 100.

Jimena Sofia Viveros Alvarez, Managing Director and CEO of IQuilibriumAI and an AI expert at the OECD (Mexico), stressed the importance of clear principles for working with AI systems.

“People interact with technology so much today that we need to reflect on that interaction and understand which values and principles should guide it. UNESCO has regulations on AI. As the technological revolution continues, we keep revisiting and rethinking these principles. We need common institutions to ensure that we all move in the same direction toward the same goal: using AI for the benefit of humanity,” she said.

Anna Abramova, Director of the MGIMO AI Center and Academic Director of the Master’s Program in Artificial Intelligence, added that, in her view, ethics underlies every issue related to AI. She noted that some countries have already adopted relevant legislation. Ganta Srinath Reddy, Founder and CEO of The AI SCHOOL and DeepAnnotate.ai (India), identified four “pillars” that he believes underpin the use of AI: critical thinking, communication, creativity and collaboration.

“When working with generative models, it’s important to have clear ethical principles and well-defined boundaries. If these principles are in place, you’ll be able to explain yourself to any colleague in any office. Every organization needs to understand that humanity must remain at the center. The day will come when we depend entirely on robots. We shouldn’t be afraid of that; we need to learn to live with it,” Reddy said.

Fadwa AlBawardi, CEO of Fadwa AlBawardi Consulting Office (Saudi Arabia), noted that as technologies become more complex, the ethical risks grow.

“Some AI agents provide services that require no oversight at all. But others can affect society, morality and efficiency. We need to classify them; we can’t treat all AI systems as if they were the same,” AlBawardi said.

Sergey Izraylit, Deputy Chairman of the Executive Board and Managing Director of the Skolkovo Foundation, predicted major changes in the labor market. “I can see AI fundamentally changing the situation over the next two to three years. Techno-optimists predict that 20% to 60% of people worldwide will lose their jobs.”

Andrey Vorobyev, President of MTP Newdiamed and Founder of MeDiCase, discussed the particular challenges of using AI in medicine.

“AI helps and reduces workloads, but there’s a risk that doctors will become complacent and start trusting it too much. This could undermine their autonomy and their ability to make decisions for which they remain responsible. There’s another concern: insurance companies use AI systems to review doctors’ work histories. If errors are found, it becomes difficult for a doctor to defend themselves. This could lead us to a point where different systems argue with one another. Patients also use AI, getting different opinions from different doctors. Sometimes patients lose faith in their doctor, the doctor loses out, and the quality of care suffers,” the expert said.

Isabel de Sola Criado, Head of the Coordination Unit at the United Nations Office for Digital and Emerging Technologies (UN ODET), addressed cybersecurity.

“Until recently, we didn’t have technology that could operate without our involvement. But that has changed. Today, I spoke with cybersecurity specialists, and criminal actors can use AI, too. We need a contingency plan for when something goes wrong, so that people can come together and respond.” De Sola Criado argued that innovation and security should not be treated as mutually exclusive choices.

At the end of the discussion, participants agreed that the issues under consideration were universal across countries and agreed to continue the conversation.