António Guterres

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The rapid growth of artificial intelligence (AI) has raised the eyebrows of regulators. Several countries including the US, the UK, the European Union and other regions are all preparing to legislatures to monitor the technology. Now the United Nations (UN) has also stepped in and has backed a proposal by some AI executives for an international AI watchdog body that will function like the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).“Alarm bells over the latest form of artificial intelligence – generative AI – are deafening.…

The United Nations wants Big Oil to have a seat at the table when it comes to climate solutions—an idea kind of like inviting a fox into a henhouse.On Monday, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its blockbuster new report, which sets some firm goals. To stave off the worst impacts of climate change, we need emissions to peak over the next two years and to cut emissions a whopping 65% by 2035. We’ve, essentially, got a little over a decade to seriously move away fromfossil fuel use. Longer-term…

We need to cut global greenhouse gas emissions by more than half over the next decade in order to stave off the worst impacts of climate change, says a blockbuster new report. The next few years represent a crucial crossroads, the international group of scientists said, as the choices we make could make or break our efforts to avert catastrophe.The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the world’s leading scientific body on climate change, put out its latest report on Monday. While the world has made some progress in…

Don’t worry, helpless insurance companies: the Texas Legislature is here to protect you from big, bad environmentalists. A Texas state senator said during a panel discussion last week at a conference put on by a prominent climate-denier think tank that the state legislature would focus on rolling out legislation this year to punish insurance companies trying to divest from fossil fuels. The big target is ESG, or environmental, social, and governance, a strategy companies can use to make ethical investments.During a panel…

Photo: Sean Gallup (Getty Images)When delegates from 50 countries met in the Netherlands this week to discuss the future of military artificial intelligence, human rights activists and non-proliferation experts saw an opportunity. For years, rights groups have urged nations to restrict the development of AI weapons and sign a legally binding treaty to restrict the use of them over fears their unrestricted development could mirror last century’s nuclear arms race. Instead, the results of what could have been a historic…

Photo: U.S. Army Spc. Jaaron TolleyThe U.S. The Department of Defense has peeked into the future, and it sees a world rife with automated weapons of war. In its first update since 2012, DoD’s guidance overseeing the development, testing, and use of autonomous and semi-autonomous weapons warned of artificial intelligence’s “increasing role” in wars to come. More than a decade has passed since the Pentagon last updated its policy directive on these weapons, titled “Autonomy in Weapons Systems,” but that changed this week. …

The United Nations rights chief said Saturday that Elon Musk's decision to reinstate the Twitter accounts of several journalists was welcome news, but warned that "serious concerns remain". "Good news that journalists are being reinstated Twitter, but serious concerns remain," Volker Turk said on the platform, insisting "Twitter has a responsibility to respect human rights." Musk had drawn anger and warnings from the European Union and United Nations after suspending the accounts of more than half a dozen prominent…

Sometime today, November 15, the 8 billionth human on Earth is projected to be born. It could be happening right now, as I write this (or you read this). Or maybe it happened hours ago. But regardless of the exact second, today we officially enter a world with an estimated 8 billion people in it, according to a new report from the United Nations.It’s the first time we’ve added a full billion people since 2011, when humanity reached the 7 billion mark. And things have slowed down from there. The rate of global population…

November is supposed to bring colder weather to the Northern hemisphere, but this year the month began with unusually high temperatures.Read more... November is supposed to bring colder weather to the Northern hemisphere, but this year the month began with unusually high temperatures.Read more... FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified.…