News headlines for “Free Trade and Globalization”, page 106
The Regulation Tortoise and the AI Hare
- Inter Press Service
LONDON, Jun 16 (IPS) - Regulation of a technology typically emerges sometime after it has been used in a product or service, or, worse, the risks become apparent. This responsive approach is regrettable when real harm is already being done, as now with AI. With existential risk, the approach would risk the end of human existence.
Healthy Homes - A Right of Rural Families in Peru
- Inter Press Service
CUZCO, Peru, Jun 15 (IPS) - Adopting a “healthy housing” approach is improving the living conditions of rural Peruvian women like Martina Santa Cruz, a 34-year-old farmer who lives with her husband and two children in the village of Sacllo, 2,959 meters above sea level in the Andes highlands municipality of Calca.
AI ChatGPT Responds to UNs Proposed Code of Conduct to Monitor Artificial Intelligence
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 15 (IPS) - As artificial intelligence (AI) turns into a global phenomenon, it has triggered widespread speculation on both its positive and negative consequences.
Is AI technology threatening to go wild? the sceptics question. Will AI be a curse or a divine gift to humanity? ask others.
One in every 10 children works - instead of going to school
- UN News
Around the world, some 160 million children work to earn a living, instead of going to school. That’s almost one in every 10 children.
It's Time to Ban Cigarette Filters
- Inter Press Service
BANGKOK, Thailand, Jun 09 (IPS) - The second session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on plastic pollution (INC-2), held in Paris, France, from May 29 to June 02, 2023, concluded with optimism and the prospect of ending plastics pollution. Over 700 delegates from 169 Member States agreed to prepare a zero draft of agreement ahead of the third session in November this year.
Will Big Powers Condone a UN Role in Artificial Intelligence?
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Jun 08 (IPS) - The UN is hustling to play a role – perhaps even a leading role – in the revolution of Artificial Intelligence. To some degree this is perfectly natural.
AI Genie is Out of the Bottle – UN Should Take the Challenge to Make it Work for the Good of Humanity
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Jun 07 (IPS) - Ambassador Anwarul K. Chowdhury is Former Under-Secretary-General and High Representative of the United Nations and Founder of the Global Movement for The Culture of Peace.Recently when I was asked to offer my thoughts on the phenomenal advances of artificial intelligence (AI) and whether the United Nations play a role in its global governance, I was reminded of the Three Laws of Robotics which are a set of rules devised by science fiction author Isaac Asimov and introduced in his1942 short story.
Does Artificial Intelligence Need a Regulatory UN Watchdog?
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 06 (IPS) - The frighteningly rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have triggered the question: is there a UN role for monitoring and regulating it?
Citing a report from the Center for AI Safety, the New York Times reported last week that a group of over 350 AI industry leaders warned that artificial intelligence poses a growing new danger to humanity –and should be considered a “societal risk on a par with pandemics and nuclear wars”.
India train disaster: UN chief deeply saddened by loss of life
- UN News
The UN Secretary-General has expressed his deep sadness over the loss of life and injuries sustained during India’s worst rail disaster this century, when three trains collided in the eastern state of Odisha on Friday.
Hopes for Renewal Dashed in Turkey
- Inter Press Service
LONDON, Jun 01 (IPS) - Turkey’s election hasn’t produced the change many thought was on the cards. Now women’s groups, LGBTQI+ people and independent journalists are among those fearing the worse.
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who has led the country for two decades, first as prime minister and then as president, prevailed in the 28 May runoff poll, taking around 52.2 per cent of the vote, with his opponent, Kemal K?l?çdaro?lu, on 47.8 per cent.
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