OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Ignazio Cassis has called on the member states to anticipate scientific and technological developments at an early stage. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox At a two-day conference of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, the Swiss foreign minister called for "pragmatic" cooperation. "If no one controls them, they will control us," said Cassis at the OSCE conference in Geneva, referring to new technologies. Following corresponding initiatives in the UN Security Council under a Swiss chair in 2024, the Cassis now wants to anchor the topic more firmly in the OSCE. + Inside Geneva: How to cope with killer robots The greatest danger today is no longer technological surprise, but political delay, said Cassis. If regulation lags behind innovation, mistrust, misjudgements and tensions arise. Wide impact Technological developments influence all three dimensions of the OSCE: the politico-military sphere with new forms ...
