President Biden called on the world’s countries to regulate artificial intelligence so it doesn’t “govern us” in a Tuesday speech to the United Nations General Assembly.

The 80-year-old president said that artificial intelligence, which burst into public use over the past year with popular image-editing programs and the text-producing ChatGPT, carries “enormous peril.”

“Emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence, hold both enormous potential and enormous peril. We need to be sure that they’re used as tools of opportunity, not as weapons of oppression,” Biden said.

“Together with leaders around the world, the United States is working to strengthen rules and policies so AI technologies are safe before they’re released to the public, to make sure we govern this technology, not the other way around — having it govern us.”

Science fiction has many examples of artificial intelligence turning the tables on mankind — such as the “Terminator” series, in which the platform Skynet becomes self-aware and all but wipes out human civilization — but it’s unclear what Biden was specifically referencing.

“I’m committed to working through this institution and other international bodies and directly with leaders around the world including our competitors to ensure we harness the power of artificial intelligence for good while protecting our citizens from this most profound risk,” Biden went on.

“It’s gonna take all of us. I’ve been working on this for a while, as many of you have, it’s going to take all of us to get this right.”

Biden also spoke about threats coming from global warming and Russia’s nearly two-year invasion of Ukraine, while having conciliatory words for China — when he bothered to mention Beijing at all.

The commander-in-chief called on countries to “climate-proof our world” by reducing greenhouse gas emissions. 

“Record-breaking heat waves in the United States and China; wildfires ravaging North America and Southern Europe; a fifth year of drought in the Horn of Africa; tragic flooding in Libya … has killed thousands of people,” Biden said.

“Together, these snapshots tell an urgent story of what awaits us if we fail to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels and begin to climate-proof our world … the United States has treated this crisis as an existential threat from the moment we took office — not only to us but for all of humanity.”

Biden has taken heat from Republicans for advocating reductions in American use of fossil fuels without demanding similar reductions from countries such as China, which emits about double the greenhouse gases as the US, though less per capita. 

“I’ve said we are for derisking, not decoupling with China. We will push back on aggression and intimidation to defend the rules of the road from freedom of navigation to overflight to a level economic playing field,” he said Tuesday.

“But we also stand ready to work together with China on issues where progress hinges on our common efforts. Nowhere is that more critical than accelerating the climate crisis than the accelerating climate crisis.”

Later, Biden referenced China’s mistreatment of Uyghur Muslims in the northwestern province of Xinjiang, saying, “We cannot turn away from abuses whether in Xinjiang, Tehran, Darfur or anywhere else.”

But Biden pulled other punches, including mentioning the need for “a global coalition to counter fentanyl and synthetic drugs,” without mentioning that China is the primary source of illicit fentanyl, which has caused a surge in US overdose deaths — killing about 76,000 Americans last year.

The five-year US death toll from fentanyl is roughly 275,000. 

Biden, whose son Hunter and brother James earned millions of dollars from Chinese government-linked companies, also didn’t mention an interest in pressuring China to cooperate with international investigations of the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, which killed more than 1.1 million Americans and caused massive societal, business and educational disruption — despite vowing to achieve answers in a written statement in August 2021, in which he wrote that a failure to do so could allow for another pandemic.

The FBI and the US Energy Department, which includes the National Laboratories, have assessed the virus likely leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China, that was doing risky US-funded research, but China’s government has declined to cooperate with international investigations.

Biden also used the speech to knock Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine — as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky prepares to visit Washington later this week to advocate more US aid to an increasingly reluctant Congress.

“Russia believes that the world will grow weary and allow it to brutalize Ukraine without consequence. But I ask you this: If we abandon the core principles of the UN Charter to appease an aggressor, can any member state feel confident that they are protected? If we allow Ukraine to be carved up, is the independence of any nation secure?” Biden said.

“The answer is no. We must stand up to this naked aggression today to deter other would-be aggressors tomorrow. That is why the United States together with our Allies and partners around the world will continue to stand with the brave people of Ukraine as they defend their sovereignty and territorial integrity — and their freedom.”