A new organization to supervise artificial intelligence could be modeled after the U.N. atomic watchdog agency, created in response to nuclear technology.
A proposal by some scientists and experts to create a new international watchdog agency in artificial intelligence gained the endorsement of U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres.
At a press briefing on Monday, Guterres said it's time for the world to heed the advice of AI scientists and experts who say the rapid advances in generative AI technology are both promising and extremely dangerous.
IUGS rejected declaring that we live in a new epoch defined by far-reaching human impacts on the planet since the 1950s.
Proposed by the U.S. and co-sponsored by China and more than 120 other nations, its passage represented a moment of international cooperation through science diplomacy.
A top U.N. official cites strong concerns about mental privacy, which is 'a line that we should not cross at all' as AI develops.
The Open Quantum Institute began a three-year pilot phase hosted by the European Organization for Nuclear Research.
Fourteen cases remain under investigation by U.N. investigators, who have met with authorities in Israel.
The chair of the talks called for optimism despite divisions among plastic-producing nations and those urging restraints.
The number of people facing high levels of acute food insecurity has increased every year since 2019.
The group of organizations that reviewed the U.N. agency recommends several ways of strengthening its neutrality.
