52 Nations Warn: AI Is Accelerating the Spread of Antisemitism

Fifty-two UN member states issued a joint declaration at the Human Rights Council in Geneva, calling for an immediate intensification of the fight against global antisemitism and spotlighting the real dangers posed by the rapid development of artificial intelligence. The report was published on Thursday by Maariv.

The initiative for the declaration came from the delegations of Austria, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia, alongside the World Jewish Congress (WJC), which worked with diplomatic officials in Geneva.

The signatory countries warned that AI tools are serving as "fertile ground for the creation and dissemination of blatant antisemitic content. These technologies make it possible to replicate and refine Holocaust denial and distortion, conspiracy theories, and targeted disinformation campaigns, at unprecedented speed, precision, and scale."

The signatory countries appealed to governments and international tech giants, calling on them to develop and strengthen strict safeguards. The emphasis was on increasing transparency around the algorithms and data sets on which models are trained, implementing close human oversight at every stage of development, and holding the companies operating these systems accountable.

World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder welcomed the move and warned of the consequences of public and technological indifference: "Artificial intelligence must not become a new engine for old hatred. We must not allow antisemitism, Holocaust distortion, and conspiracy theories to spread faster and farther simply because the technology has changed. Governments and technology companies have a moral and practical responsibility to act now, before it becomes even harder to contain these dangers."