Artificial Intelligence – Selected Online Resources
“From its first steps in the mid-twentieth century to the present day, artificial intelligence (AI) has been rapidly transforming our world.
AI includes a diverse range of technologies that can be defined as ‘self-learning, adaptive systems.’ It can be categorized based on technologies, purposes (like facial or image recognition), functions (such as language understanding and problem-solving), or types of agents (including robots and self-driving cars).
It also includes various methods and disciplines such as vision, speech recognition, and robotics, and serves to enhance traditional human capabilities. Recent progress in AI has been driven by advancements in computer processing power and data techniques.”
Artificial intelligence and the UN: governance, risks and SDGs.
A UNRIC Library backgrounder on how the United Nations system is addressing artificial intelligence through governance milestones, ethics principles, agencies, reports and events.
How the UN caught up with AI.
Five years from a digital roadmap to an independent Scientific Panel. Click any milestone for the source. Major milestones in UN Blue.
Who's doing what on AI.
Twelve agencies with the most active mandates. The full system list — 30+ entities — is in the Library section below.
The same tool, cutting both ways.
UN agencies report concrete benefits and concrete dangers — often from the same technology used differently.
What every AI ethics framework agrees on.
Across the 100+ proposals tracked by the UN, five pillars keep showing up.
The full backgrounder.
Everything from the UNRIC reference page — agencies, documents, events, publications, research guides and explainers. Use the theme filters in the publications section to browse the archive.
All UN entities working on AI.
Every UN body listed in the source backgrounder, with its specific AI mandate. Click any card to open its dedicated AI page.
Resolutions, debates, official records.
General Assembly, Security Council, ECOSOC and Human Rights Council documents on AI. Each row links to the official UN document.
Where the conversation happens.
UN-convened summits, debates and expert meetings on AI from 2022 onwards.
Eight years of UN analysis on AI.
Filter by theme or use the search bar. -- publications from across the UN system.
UN library research guides.
Curated UN research tools, repositories and bibliographies on AI.
Explainers, op-eds, statements.
Selected commentary and high-level interventions from UN officials and outlets.