Human control of AI: 20 countries plus the EU call — US and China stay out
Per Al Jazeera, twenty countries and the European Union issued a joint statement urging international cooperation so AI stays under human direction, oversight and control — including exploring a global oversight body to set and enforce standards, enable verification, and convene states when capability thresholds are crossed. Signatories include Germany, South Africa, Canada, Australia, the UAE and Singapore; Finland’s President Stubb’s office released the text ahead of UN General Assembly AI-risk talks. The United States and China did not join; India, South Korea, Japan, the UK and France were also not among the signatories. This is the 20+EU human-control / oversight-body declaration, not OpenAI’s US-led standards blog, not Amodei’s slowdown essay as the lead, and not SpaceX/scientists coverage.