Swiss warn of effects of new technologies on global peace and security

The ultra-fast development of new technologies and artificial intelligence will have a major impact on peace and security in the world. The UN Security Council, under the leadership of Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis, is convinced of this. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Soldiers who have longer endurance and greater pain tolerance thanks to neurotechnology, fighters who are able to control additional automatic limbs and acquire new senses such as sight in the dark: This is not the future, Cassis warned in his speech to the UN Security Council in New York on Monday. "What was still science fiction ten or 15 years ago is now becoming our new reality," he said. Switzerland, as president of the UN Security Council this month, had issued invitations to the meeting. Its two-year membership of the Council ends on December 31. The integration of artificial intelligence and neurotechnologies enables ultra-fast decision-making, said Cassis in New York.