New UN agency set to monitor threats from AI and robotics

New UN agency set to monitor threats from AI and robotics

The Netherlands-based unit will research the impact of the technology on global society

A file image of a demining robot in France. File photograph: Jacques Demarthon/AFP/Getty Images The United Nations is to open a new office in the Netherlands to monitor leading-edge trends in the development of robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) – some elements of which were described last month as posing “the biggest existential threat” facing humanity.

The UN currently has a number of departments involved in research on the impact of AI and robotics on different aspects of the global economy, and the aim now is to […]

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