The UN wants to create a permanent body to regulate AI development. But their September 2024 whitepaper “Governing AI For Humanity” mostly succeeds in showing why their elite-connected biases render them incapable of dealing with fast-advancing AI’s most serious dangers.
Remember the big mainstream media coverage week, after week, month after month about Hamas raping Israeli women they captured?
The U.S. on Tuesday shot down a widely embraced resolution at the UN that called for ceasefire—marking the third time since the Gaza genocide broke out that Washington killed a push to end the violence in the battered enclave.
The Biden administration will reject another UN resolution demanding that Israel ends its ethnic cleansing campaign in Gaza, stating that the resolution runs “counter” to Washington’s goals through diplomacy.
An Israeli airstrike on the Jabaliya refugee camp in Gaza that killed at least 195 could amount to a war crime, the UN’s Human Rights Office said in a statement.
Israel’s heavy-handed reaction to Hamas’s surprise attack last month fits the “textbook” definition of genocide, an outgoing top UN official said.
The global economy is increasingly marked by low investment and low growth, financial speculation, declining real incomes, rising social inequality, and greater domination by giant multinational corporations, according to the newest UN Trade and Development Report.
Most Americans do not understand how the United Nations functions, or does not function as the case might be, preferring to think of it as some kind of debating society where the 193 member nations representing the world community can vent over issues that they rarely have control over.
At a 13 July conference, the UN’s Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) launched an effort to frame a set of ethical standards around “neurotech,” the use of computers to connect with and analyze the human mind.
From cars to food: many have noticed a distinct shift in attention of radical climate activists lately.
Food is squarely on the table as a subject of “unsustainable” so-called greenhouse gas emissions such as carbon and methane.