Filipino Nobel laureate, Canadian tech pioneer nominated to UN's AI panel
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New York: Journalist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa of the Philippines, and Canadian artificial intelligence pioneer Yoshua Bengio are amo...
New York: Journalist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa of the Philippines, and Canadian artificial intelligence pioneer Yoshua Bengio are among 40 experts poised to serve on a United Nations AI panel, officials announced Wednesday.
Also named among the proposed independent experts to serve for three years on the panel is Joelle Barral, a French national who is senior director for research and engineering at Google's DeepMind.
Ethiopian national Girmaw Abebe Tadesse - a principal research scientist at the Microsoft lab dedicated to the use of AI in sustainability, humanitarian work and health - has also been named to the group.
"It will be the first global, fully independent scientific body dedicated to helping close the AI knowledge gap and assess the real impacts of AI across economies and societies," UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told a press conference.
He unveiled the list of names to be submitted for final consideration by the UN General Assembly.
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