Elizabeth Gibney in Nature:
Dozens of researchers from around the world are now part of a scientific group that will analyse the impacts of artificial intelligence. Observers have compared the group, called the Independent International Scientific Panel on Artificial Intelligence and convened by the United Nations, to the influential Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which informs governments about the latest climate-change science. For more than 35 years, it has amassed evidence showing that current global warming is caused mostly by human activity.
The AI panel’s 40 members, approved in a vote by the UN’s General Assembly on 12 February, are from 37 nations. The UN says the panel will act “as an early-warning system and evidence engine, helping distinguish between hype and reality” and produce “policy-relevant” reports.
Only the United States and Paraguay voted against their appointment.
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