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The UN Wants to Figure Out Just How Dangerous AI Is
The United Nations created a 39-member advisory body to guide the world through governance issues around artificial intelligence, announced United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announced. Steve Wozniak, Elon Musk and the world’s 500 top technologists called for a pause of advanced AI systems back in March to develop sufficient safeguards, sounding the alarm to take…
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The UN Is Building a Global Early Warning System for Extreme Weather
In hopes of protecting more people from climate change-fuelled disasters, the United Nations is working on a global system to warn populations who are in the path of a storm or about to be hit by a heatwave or drought. The UN World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) aims to build a system within the next five…
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Greta Thunberg and the Teens Go for Broke in New UN Climate Emergency Petition
GLASGOW, SCOTLAND — The teens continue to exploit every avenue they have to force the world to come to grips with their future. The latest push came on Wednesday when Greta Thunberg and 13 other kids dropped a petition on United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ doorstep. Their demand: The UN must declare a climate emergency.
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These Dream-like Photos of the Amazon Reveal a Hidden Nightmare
The Amazon’s destruction in everyday colour is terrible enough. But a special photographic method reveals the true toll of mining, logging, and other human activities on the world’s largest rainforest.