The U.N. does not want the competition.
Then, logically, the UN should also ban Islam, correct?
Efforts to limit the riskiest uses of AI have been backed by Microsoft and other U.S. tech giants that hope to guide the rules affecting the technology. Microsoft has worked with and provided funding to the U.N. rights office to help improve its use of technology,
And how do these Masters of the Universe fare in AI?
Facebook apology as AI labels black men 'primates'
The danger with Artificial intelligence (which is more often just machine learning) is, among other things, in the absence of a clear "here is how we got from Point A to B." Only developers with an ethical and moral - and technical - backbone have a chance of building an optimization routine with big data that doesn't redline or do something stupid. Even then, because of the cascading nature of the algorithm, it will be incumbent upon the owner to monitor the algorithm to avoid unintended consequences.
When an unthinking, mindless program produces strictly unbiased results that reveal that there ARE race differences in performance, IQ, crime, the system should be promoted, not condemned as racist.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/in-2016-microsofts-racist-chatbot-revealed-the-dangers-of-online-conversation