Pres. Petr Pavel's speech at the U.N. General Assembly yesterday must be considered official Czech foreign policy, esp. after the way PM Andrej Babiš said in Parliament on July 2 that the cabinet would prepare the speech and then instruct Pavel to read it. "That's the way it works," Babiš said then. Pavel's comments yesterday about China and Russia were nothing new, except in the context of advances in artificial intelligence. "If AI is to serve humanity," he said, "it must develop within a framework of international rules. No country, and no company, can meet this challenge alone. We need common standards, meaningful public oversight and clear mechanisms of accountability." On the one hand Pavel said that the future legitimacy of the U.N. depends on whether it can be reformed to adapt to a world of growing geopolitical rivalry and fragmentation. Yet on the other hand he - and the Czech government - apparently want AI to be governed now by the very U.N. structures that are failing to adapt. Perhaps the next step will be to support a non-proliferation treaty that guarantees that only a few countries will ever have control over AI.