"ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE"

President of the France, Emmanuel Macron, and Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General, today broke ground for the WHO Academy’s campus in the French city of Lyon. WHO

At the opening of the UN General Assembly’s General Debate, UN Secretary-General António Guterres sounded the alarm as the world is “on the edge of an abyss and moving in the wrong direction” adding that now was the time to “restore trust” and “inspire hope.” UNIFEED

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet stressed the urgent need for a moratorium on the sale and use of artificial intelligence (AI) systems that pose a serious risk to human rights until adequate safeguards are put in place. She also called for AI applications that cannot be used in compliance with international human rights law to be banned. UNTV CH

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO), inaugurated a new WHO Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence, based in Berlin. WHO

Adopting resolution 2589 (2021), Security Council calls on governments to protect peacekeepers, requests creation of online database cataloguing attacks. Harness digital technology to protect peacekeepers, civilians, Security Council urges, adopting presidential statement.

Briefing reporters in Geneva, a UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR) official said, “We can, and should, make the internet a safer place, but it doesn’t need to be at the expense of fundamental rights.” UNTV CH

Second United Nations High-Level Conference of Heads of Counter-Terrorism Agencies of Member States on countering and preventing terrorism in the age of transformative technologies with the overall theme of “Countering and Preventing Terrorism in the Age of Transformative Technologies: Addressing the Challenges of the New Decade.”

Second United Nations High-Level Conference of Heads of Counter-Terrorism Agencies of Member States on countering and preventing terrorism in the age of transformative technologies with the overall theme of “Countering and Preventing Terrorism in the Age of Transformative Technologies: Addressing the Challenges of the New Decade.”

Second United Nations High-Level Conference of Heads of Counter-Terrorism Agencies of Member States on countering and preventing terrorism in the age of transformative technologies with the overall theme of “Countering and Preventing Terrorism in the Age of Transformative Technologies: Addressing the Challenges of the New Decade.”

Second United Nations High-Level Conference of Heads of Counter-Terrorism Agencies of Member States on countering and preventing terrorism in the age of transformative technologies with the overall theme of “Countering and Preventing Terrorism in the Age of Transformative Technologies: Addressing the Challenges of the New Decade.”