Speaker: Joe Biden, President of the United States Venue: UN General Assembly, New York Date: September 24, 2024
President Joe Biden delivered these remarks to the 79th session of the UN General Assembly in New York on September 24, 2024. It was his last UNGA address as President, delivered roughly four months before the end of his term. The speech is a primary-record articulation of the US 2024 stance on AI international cooperation, multilateralism, and the US role in shaping global AI governance norms.
Summary
The address presents the Biden administration's position on AI international cooperation and multilateralism as articulated in a primary text rather than a policy essay or framework document. It is the administration's articulation, in Biden's own words, of the cooperative posture toward global AI governance that the administration pursued in its final year.
Context and related instruments
The cooperative posture stated in the address corresponds to the policy-essay synthesis of what the Biden administration was attempting in its final year, set out in The AI Grand Bargain — Ben Buchanan and Tantum Collins (Foreign Affairs, October 2025) (Buchanan and Collins) and The Tech High Ground (Jake Sullivan, Foreign Affairs) (Sullivan); the UNGA address is the primary-record counterpart to those essays.
It also corresponds to the multilateral instruments the administration shaped or supported, including the The Bletchley Declaration (AI Safety Summit, 1–2 November 2023), the Frontier AI Safety Commitments (Seoul, 2024), the G7 Hiroshima Code of Conduct for Advanced AI (2023), and the EU General-Purpose AI Code of Practice (Final Version, 2025).
The America's AI Action Plan, a Trump-administration successor framework, provides a later point of comparison against which the Biden administration's AI international-cooperation position can be measured.
Relationships
- supports: The Bletchley Declaration (AI Safety Summit, 1–2 November 2023), Frontier AI Safety Commitments (Seoul, 2024), G7 Hiroshima Code of Conduct for Advanced AI (2023), The AI Grand Bargain — Ben Buchanan and Tantum Collins (Foreign Affairs, October 2025)
- related: The Tech High Ground (Jake Sullivan, Foreign Affairs), America's AI Action Plan (Trump-successor benchmark), Joe Biden
- instance-of: Frontier AI Governance