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UNESCO Launches Worldwide Online Public Consultation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
UNESCO has launched a global online consultation on the ethics of artificial intelligence.
Credit: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation
UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, has launched a global online consultation on the ethics of artificial intelligence, to give everyone around the world the opportunity to participate in the work of its international group of experts on AI. This group has been charged with producing the first draft of a Recommendation on the Ethics of AI, to be submitted to UNESCO Member States for adoption in November 2021. If adopted, it will be the first global normative instrument to address the developments and applications of AI.
"It is crucial that as many people as possible take part in this consultation, so that voices from around the world can be heard during the drafting process for the first global normative instrument on the ethics of AI", says Audrey Azoulay, Director-General of UNESCO.
Twenty-four renowned specialists with multidisciplinary expertise on the ethics of artificial intelligence have been tasked with producing a draft UNESCO Recommendation that takes into account the wide-ranging impacts of AI, including on the environment and the needs of the global south.
UNESCO is convinced that that there is an urgent need for a global instrument on the ethics of AI to ensure that ethical, social and political issues can be adequately addressed both in times of peace and in extraordinary situations like the current global health crisis.
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