Professor Muhammad Yunus has joined fellow Nobel laureates in signing a joint declaration warning that the combined threat of artificial intelligence (AI) and nuclear weapons poses an unprecedented risk to humanity.
The declaration was adopted at the Global Nobel Laureates Assembly on Artificial Intelligence and Nuclear War, held in Vatican City and Rome from July 14 to 16.
Professor Yunus joined Nobel laureates, including Romano Prodi, Jody Williams, Maria Ressa, Denis Mukwege and Juan Manuel Santos, in endorsing the declaration titled Humanity at the Threshold.
During the Assembly, Professor Yunus delivered the opening address and later addressed a high-level session on Artificial Intelligence, Democracy and the Economic Revolution: Toward a New World Order.
On the sidelines of the event, he held bilateral meetings with Cardinal Mauro Gambetti, Archpriest of Saint Peter's Basilica, and Dr Qu Dongyu, Director-General of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
The declaration warns that AI is increasing risks to global security by weakening human oversight in nuclear command systems, enabling cyber threats to critical infrastructure and fuelling information warfare.
The signatories called for stronger international cooperation to prevent an AI arms race, greater transparency and accountability in AI development, an international treaty to keep AI out of nuclear launch decisions, stronger global governance of AI, greater youth engagement, and renewed efforts towards the verifiable elimination of nuclear weapons.
The declaration also echoed Pope Leo XIV's call for an "unarmed and disarming peace" and concluded by urging world leaders to "remember your humanity, and forget the rest," stressing the need for collective action to safeguard future generations.
