UNRIC Library Backgrounder: Artificial Intelligence – Selected Online Resources

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“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.”

UN – Global Issues: Artificial Intelligence (AI)

“AI brings enormous benefits to the digital era, but it can also significantly compromise the safety and agency of users worldwide. Enhanced multi-stakeholder efforts on global AI cooperation are needed to help build global capacity for the development and use of AI in a manner that is trustworthy, human rights-based, safe and sustainable, and promotes peace.”

The United Nations Secretary-General’s Roadmap for Digital Cooperation:
Providing Global Steerage on Artificial Intelligence (1-page brief)

“We need a global, multidisciplinary conversation in order to examine, assess and align the application of AI and other emerging technologies. Over 100 sets of ethical AI principles have been developed by different stakeholders, and they share many common ideas, including the need for AI applications to be reliable, transparent, accountable, overseen by humans and capable of being shut down. Different stakeholders are adapting existing frameworks or developing new ones for risk management and redress. They need to be harmonized and effective across borders. Industry self-regulation is not enough. We need to bring stakeholders together in a meaningful effort to consider the implications of emerging technologies and ensure that they align with universal human rights and values before their widespread application in our societies, economies, militaries and politics.”

Our Common Agenda – Policy Brief 5: A Global Digital Compact –
An Open, Free and Secure Digital Future for All (May 2023)

UN Entities

• Global Issues on the UN Agenda: Artificial Intelligence
  https://www.un.org/en/global-issues/artificial-intelligence
• United Nations. Office for Digital and Emerging Technologies – AI Governance
  https://www.un.org/digital-emerging-technologies/
  • Independent International Scientific Panel on AI: https://www.un.org/independent-international-scientific-panel-ai/en
  • Global Dialogue on AI Governance: https://www.un.org/global-dialogue-ai-governance/en
  • High-level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence: https://www.un.org/ai-advisory-body
    • Final Report, 19 September 2024: https://tinyurl.com/mvhnadva
    • Interim Report, December 2023: https://tinyurl.com/ebysf6eh
• UN AI Actions
  https://aiforgood.itu.int/about-ai-for-good/un-ai-actions/
  AI for Good is organized in partnership with 40 UN sister agencies who actively participate and shape our programming by sharing valuable expertise and collaborating on joint sessions.
  • AI for Food Systems: https://aiforgood.itu.int/ai-for-food-systems/
  • AI Standards Exchange Database (ITU): https://aiforgood.itu.int/ai-standards-exchange/
• UN Inter-Agency Working Group on AI (IAWG-AI)
  https://unsceb.org/topics/artificial-intelligence
• UN News Centre on “Artificial Intelligence”:
  https://news.un.org/en/tags/artificial-intelligence
  • Time to apply the brakes to runaway AI, says pioneer (22 April 2026): https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/04/1167361
  • Science-led governance of AI can help power sustainable development: Guterres (20 February 2026): https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/02/1167011
  • UN rights chief: AI must be based on inclusivity, accountability and global standards (19 February 2026): https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/02/1167000
  • From India, Guterres calls for $3 billion fund to ensure AI benefits all (18 February 2026): https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/02/1166996
  • ‘Involve all of humanity in AI opportunities’: UN senior tech official (16 February 2026): https://news.un.org/en/audio/2026/02/1166967
  • AI ‘moving at the speed of light’ warns Guterres, unveiling recommendations for UN expert panel: (4 February 2026): https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/02/1166891
  • International community to lay foundations for urgently needed AI governance (25 September 2025): https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/09/1165898
  • As AI evolves, pressure mounts to regulate ‘killer robots’ (1 June 2025): https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/06/1163891
  • AI’s $4.8 trillion future: UN warns of widening digital divide without urgent action (3 April 2025): https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/04/1161826
  • Mind your language: The battle for linguistic diversity in AI (23 March 2025): https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/03/1161406
  • Secretary-General, at Action Summit, urges working together so artificial intelligence expedites sustainable development, not creates world of ‘haves and have-nots’ (SG/SM/22548, 11 February 2025): https://press.un.org/en/2025/sgsm22548.doc.htm
  • At Davos, Guterres slams backsliding on climate commitments (22 January 2025): https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/01/1159271
    The world’s political and business elite present in Davos on Wednesday faced an uncompromising address from UN chief António Guterres as he rounded on a lack of multilateral collaboration in an “increasingly rudderless world” at risk from two existential dangers: climate change and unregulated Artificial Intelligence (AI).
  • AI literacy is ‘crucial’ for individuals and more regulation is needed (28 December 2024): https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/12/1158466
  • The promise and peril of runaway technological advances (21 October 2024): https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/10/1155946
  • Artificial intelligence: rooting out bias and stereotypes (8 October 2024): https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/10/1155446
  • ‘Irrefutable’ need for global regulation of AI: UN experts (19 September 2024): https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/09/1154541
  • The push to connect a digitally divided world and counter AI threats (16 September 2024): https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/09/1154336
  • Unchecked AI threatens democracy, warns UN chief (15 September 2024): https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/09/1154316
  • How to develop ‘ethical AI’ and avoid potential dangers (UN News, 23 February 2024): https://news.un.org/en/interview/2024/02/1146762
  • Interview: AI expert warns of digital colonization in Africa (2 January 2024): https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/01/1144342
  • Interview: The UN’s role in setting international rules for the use of A.I. (1 January 2024): https://news.un.org/en/interview/2024/01/1145192
  • Explainer: How AI helps combat climate change (3 November 2023): https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/11/1143187
  • AI reveals world’s top 3 universal concerns (6 October 2023): https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/10/1141992
• General Assembly
  • A/RES/80/58: Artificial intelligence in the military domain and its implications / Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 1 December 2025: https://docs.un.org/A/RES/80/58
  • A/RES/80/23: Possible risks of the integration of artificial intelligence into command, control and communications systems of nuclear weapons / Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 1 December 2025: https://docs.un.org/A/RES/80/23
  • General Assembly takes action on drafts on Security Council equitable representation, increased membership, artificial intelligence, other matters (GA/12699, 26 August 2025): https://press.un.org/en/2025/ga12699.doc.htm
    • A/RES/79/325: Terms of Reference and Modalities for the Establishment and Functioning of the Independent International Scientific Panel on Artificial Intelligence and the Global Dialogue on Artificial Intelligence Governance / Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 26 August 2025: https://docs.un.org/A/RES/79/325
    • Secretary-General welcomes General Assembly decision to establish new mechanisms promoting international cooperation on governance of artificial intelligence (SG/SM/22776, 26 August 2025): https://press.un.org/en/2025/sgsm22776.doc.htm
  • A/RES/79/239: Artificial intelligence in the military domain and its implications for international peace and security : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly on 24 December 2024: https://docs.un.org/A/RES/79/239
  • The General Assembly adopts a resolution on artificial intelligence on 1 July 2024: https://press.un.org/en/2024/ga12612.doc.htm
    • A/RES/78/311: Enhancing international cooperation on capacity-building of artificial intelligence: https://docs.un.org/A/RES/78/311
  • General Assembly adopts landmark resolution on steering artificial intelligence towards global good, faster realization of sustainable development (GA/12588, 21 March 2024): https://press.un.org/en/2024/ga12588.doc.htm
    • A/RES/78/265: Seizing the opportunities of safe, secure and trustworthy artificial intelligence systems for sustainable development: https://docs.un.org/A/RES/78/265
• Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)
  • ECOSOC Special Meeting on Artificial Intelligence, 6 May 2025: https://ecosoc.un.org/en/events/2025/ecosoc-special-meeting-artificial-intelligence
  • ECOSOC Special Meeting on “Harnessing Artificial Intelligence for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)”, 7 May 2024: https://ecosoc.un.org/en/events/2024/ecosoc-special-meeting-harnessing-artificial-intelligence-sustainable-development-goals
  • Commission on the Status of Women – Interactive dialogue on emerging issue/focus area “Artificial Intelligence to advance gender equality: challenges and opportunities:” Chair’s summary (E/CN.6/2024/15, 23 March 2024): https://docs.un.org/E/CN.6/2024/15
• Security Council
  • Security Council high-level open debate on “Artificial intelligence and international peace and security”, 24 September 2025
    • Concept Note: https://docs.un.org/S/2025/593
    • Press Release: https://press.un.org/en/2025/sc16180.doc.htm
    • Meeting Record: https://docs.un.org/S/PV.10005
  • Security Council debates use of artificial intelligence in conflicts, hears calls for UN Framework to Avoid Fragmented Governance (SC/15946, 19 December 2024): https://press.un.org/en/2024/sc15946.doc.htm
  • Secretary-General tells Security Council that ‘ai’ must never equal ‘advancing inequality’, urging safe, secure, inclusive future for technology (SG/SM/22500, 19 December 2024): https://press.un.org/en/2024/sgsm22500.doc.htm
  • Security Council briefing on “Artificial intelligence: opportunities and risks for international peace and security”, 18 July 2023
    • Concept Note: https://docs.un.org/S/2023/528
    • Press Release: https://press.un.org/en/2023/sc15359.doc.htm
    • Meeting Record: https://undocs.org/S/PV.9381
• United Nations. Department of Economic and Social Affairs
  • Era of AI: Internet Governance Forum closes with call for stronger multistakeholder action to harness digital promise and tackle threats (19 December 2024): https://www.un.org/en/desa/global-leaders-private-sector-civil-society-and-technical-community-unite-comprehensive
  • Artificial Intelligence – a blessing or a curse for sustainable development? (10 November 2023): https://www.un.org/en/desa/artificial-intelligence-blessing-or-curse-sustainable-development
    In recent years, the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has grown rapidly, affecting many industries and areas of human life. But should we view AI as a blessing or curse? How about its impact on social development and the global goals? We spoke with Professor Daron Acemoglu of the Department of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who shared his take.
• International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
  • Artificial Intelligence: https://www.itu.int/en/action/ai/Pages/default.aspx
  • AI for Good: https://aiforgood.itu.int/
  • Focus Group on AI for Natural Disaster Management: https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/focusgroups/ai4ndm/Pages/default.aspx
  • Focus Group on “Artificial Intelligence for Health”: https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/focusgroups/ai4h/Pages/default.aspx
  • AI and Emerging Radio Technologies: https://www.itu.int/en/action/ai/emerging-radio-technologies/Pages/default.aspx
  • Focus Group on “Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT) for Digital Agriculture” (FG-AI4A): https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/focusgroups/ai4a/Pages/default.aspx
  • Joint Statement on Artificial Intelligence and the Rights of the Child (November 2025): https://www.itu.int/dms_pub/itu-d/opb/str/D-STR-CYB_JOINT-2025-PDF-E.pdf
• United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
  • Artificial Intelligence & Emerging Technologies:
    https://www.unesco.org/en/artificial-intelligence
    • Ethics of Artificial Intelligence: https://www.unesco.org/en/artificial-intelligence/recommendation-ethics
    • AI in Education: https://www.unesco.org/en/digital-education/artificial-intelligence
  • UNESCO and IRCAI launch special journal issue on AI and justice (29 July 2025): https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/unesco-and-ircai-launch-special-journal-issue-ai-and-justice
  • World Press Freedom Day, 3 May 2025: reporting in the Brave New World: the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Press Freedom and the Media: https://www.unesco.org/en/days/press-freedom
  • UNESCO dedicates the International Day of Education 2025 to Artificial Intelligence (20 January 2025): https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/unesco-dedicates-international-day-education-2025-artificial-intelligence
• Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
  https://www.cepal.org/en/topics/artificial-intelligence
  • Artificial Intelligence Is Changing the World, and Latin America and the Caribbean Cannot Fall Behind (4 March 2025): https://www.cepal.org/en/pressreleases/artificial-intelligence-changing-world-and-latin-america-and-caribbean-cannot-fall
• Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
  • FAO Director-General calls for AI’s transformative power to be at the service of rural communities and a bridge towards shared prosperity: QU Dongyu addresses Vatican-hosted high-level symposium: AI and the Future of Human Dignity (25 May 2026): https://www.fao.org/newsroom/detail/fao-director-general-calls-for-ai-s-transformative-power-to-be-at-the-service-of-rural-communities-and-a-bridge-towards-shared-prosperity/en
  • FAO launches new Artificial Intelligence tool – the first FAO Virtual Colleague “Ms FAO AI” – to improve internal efficiency, inclusivity and reliability (5 November 2025): https://tinyurl.com/mrx3ntpy
  • AI can be a game-changing solution for farmers: FAO Innovation Chief / Interview with Vincent Martin, Director of the FAO Office of Innovation (2 April 2025): https://www.fao.org/newsroom/detail/ai-can-be-a-game-changing-solution-for-farmers–fao-innovation-chief/en
• International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
  • The IAEA’s platform for partnership on AI: https://nucleus.iaea.org/sites/ai4atoms/SitePages/Home.aspx
  • IAEA to Host International Symposium on AI and Nuclear Energy in December (18 February 2025): https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/iaea-to-host-international-symposium-on-ai-and-nuclear-energy-in-december
• International Civil Aviation Agency (ICAO)
  • AI in International Civil Aviation: https://www.icao.int/ai-international-civil-aviation
  • Global aviation leaders chart path for artificial intelligence integration at Antalya conference (20 November 2024): https://www2023.icao.int/Newsroom/Pages/Global-aviation-leaders-chart-path-for-artificial-intelligence-integration-at-Antalya-conference.aspx
• International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
  • 4 ways IFAD is using AI to transform rural development (18 April 2024): https://www.ifad.org/en/web/latest/-/4-ways-ifad-is-using-ai-to-transform-rural-development
• International Labour Organization (ILO)
  • Observatory on AI and Work in the Digital Economy: https://www.ilo.org/artificial-intelligence-and-work-digital-economy
  • How might generative AI impact different occupations? (20 May 2025):
    https://www.ilo.org/resource/article/how-might-generative-ai-impact-different-occupations
  • ILO Director-General calls for placing decent work at the heart of automation and AI adoption (18 February 2025): https://www.ilo.org/resource/news/ilo-director-general-calls-placing-decent-work-heart-automation-and-ai
  • AI provides innovative ways to improve compliance with labour laws (3 February 2025): https://www.ilo.org/resource/article/ai-provides-innovative-ways-improve-compliance-labour-laws
  • How reskilling for AI could unlock new and better jobs (28 January 2025): https://www.ilo.org/resource/article/how-reskilling-ai-could-unlock-new-and-better-jobs
  • The Future of Work Podcast
    • Artificial intelligence, innovation and the world of work (4 June 2025): https://voices.ilo.org/podcast/artificial-intelligence-innovation-and-the-world-of-work
    • Is Generative AI the answer to low productivity? (5 January 2024): https://voices.ilo.org/podcast/is-generative-ai-the-answer-to-low-productivity
    • Artificial Intelligence and the future of work: A threat or a promise? (20 November 2023): https://www.ilo.org/resource/other/artificial-intelligence-and-future-work-threat-or-promise
    • Job quality or job quantity – which will AI affect most? (4 October 2023): https://voices.ilo.org/podcast/job-quality-or-job-quantity–which-will-ai-affect-most
    • Does Artificial Intelligence threaten decent work? (19 July 2023): https://voices.ilo.org/podcast/does-artificial-intelligence-threaten-decent-work
    • Artificial Intelligence and the world of work – should we be scared? (28 April 2023): https://voices.ilo.org/podcast/artificial-intelligence-and-the-world-of-work–should-we-be-scared
• International Monetary Fund (IMF)
  https://www.imf.org/en/Topics/Artificial-Intelligence
  • AI Preparedness Index (AIPI): https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/datasets/AIPI
• United Nations Office of the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
  • ReliefWeb – Artificial Intelligence in Humanitarian Action: https://reliefweb.int/topic/artificial-intelligence-humanitarian-action
  • Unlocking the Power of AI for Humanitarians (6 August 2024): https://reliefweb.int/blogpost/unlocking-power-ai-humanitarians
  • Briefing Note on Artificial Intelligence and the Humanitarian Sector (17 April 2024)
    https://reliefweb.int/report/world/briefing-note-artificial-intelligence-and-humanitarian-sector
• United Nations Office of Disarmament Affairs (ODA)
  • Emerging challenges: Artificial intelligence in the military domain: https://disarmament.unoda.org/en/our-work/emerging-challenges/artificial-intelligence-military-domain
  • Promoting Responsible Innovation in Artificial Intelligence for Peace and Security: https://disarmament.unoda.org/en/responsible-innovation-ai/about
    Blog, Resources, Activities & Podcasts
• Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
  • OHCHR and privacy in the digital age: https://www.ohchr.org/en/privacy-in-the-digital-age
  • Digital space and human rights: https://www.ohchr.org/en/topic/digital-space-and-human-rights
  • Elections at risk in the digital age (4 July 2025): https://www.ohchr.org/en/stories/2025/07/elections-risk-digital-age
  • Türk urges governance to ensure Artificial Intelligence systems are safe and fair (27 May 2025): https://www.ohchr.org/en/statements-and-speeches/2025/05/turk-urges-governance-ensure-artificial-intelligence-systems-are
  • Reparatory justice in the age of Artificial Intelligence (16 May 2025): https://www.ohchr.org/en/stories/2025/05/reparatory-justice-age-artificial-intelligence
• UN Women
  • Explainer: When justice fails: Why women can’t get protection from AI deepfake abuse – What is deepfake abuse and why laws, platforms, and justice systems are failing women (26 February 2026): https://www.unwomen.org/en/articles/explainer/when-justice-fails-why-women-cant-get-protection-from-ai-deepfake-abuse
  • How AI reinforces gender bias—and what we can do about it: Interview with Zinnya del Villar on AI gender bias and creating inclusive technology (5 February 2025): https://www.unwomen.org/en/news-stories/interview/2025/02/how-ai-reinforces-gender-bias-and-what-we-can-do-about-it
  • Brief: Advancing Gender Equality through Partnerships for Gender-Responsive Artificial Intelligence (UN Women, January 2025): https://www.unwomen.org/en/digital-library/publications/2025/01/advancing-gender-equality-through-partnerships-for-gender-responsive-artificial-intelligence
  • Artificial Intelligence and gender equality (22 May 2024): https://www.unwomen.org/en/news-stories/explainer/2024/05/artificial-intelligence-and-gender-equality
• United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat)
  • AI & Cities: Risks, Applications and Governance: https://unhabitat.org/ai-cities-risks-applications-and-governance
• United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
  • Science, Technology and Innovation: https://unctad.org/topic/science-technology-and-innovation
• United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
  • SDG AI Lab – Harnessing the potential of Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Development: https://sdgailab.org/
  • Artificial intelligence/Machine learning: https://www.undp.org/tag/artificial-intelligence/machine-learning
  • Digital and AI can help people live healthier lives. Here’s how. (April 2026): https://www.undp.org/digital-and-ai-can-help-people-live-healthier-lives
  • The choice of sustainable development in the age of AI: Three key lessons from UNDP’s global network (24 September 2025): https://www.undp.org/blog/choice-sustainable-development-age-ai
  • Time for Africa to lead the global AI revolution / Statement by Marcos Neto, UN Assistant Secretary-General, and Director of UNDP’s Bureau for Policy and Programme Support, at the launch of the AI Hub for Sustainable Development in Rome, Italy (20 June 2025): https://www.undp.org/speeches/time-africa-lead-global-ai-revolution
  • Hamburg Declaration on Responsible AI: Global leaders commit to responsible AI for sustainable development (2 June 2025): https://www.undp.org/news/hamburg-declaration-responsible-ai-global-leaders-commit-responsible-ai-sustainable-development
  • Digital dividends: When artificial intelligence meets human potential (6 May 2025): https://stories.undp.org/digital-dividends
• United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)
  https://unece.org/artificial-intelligence
• United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
  • AI Solutions for the Environment: https://www.unep.org/topics/digital-transformations/digital-accelerator-lab/ai-solutions-environment
• United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
  • UNHCR AI Approach: https://www.unhcr.org/digitalstrategy/ai-approach/
  • Data Innovation: https://www.unhcr.org/innovation/data-innovation/
• United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
  • UNICEF Office for Innovation – Artificial Intelligence: https://www.unicef.org/innovation/artificial-intelligence
  • Generation AI: Engaging stakeholders to build AI powered solutions that help realize and uphold child rights: https://www.unicef.org/innovation/GenerationAI
• UNICRI Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (The Hague, The Netherlands)
  https://unicri.org/topics/ai_robotics
  https://unicri.org/in_focus/on/unicri_centre_artificial_robotics
  • AI for Safer Children initiative: https://unicri.org/topics/AI-for-Safer-Children
  • UNICRI – Are Our Children Using AI Without Us Noticing? (17 July 2025): https://unicri.org/news-AI_Literacy-for-Children-Guide-Video-AI-forGood-Global-Summit-2025
• United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)
  https://unidir.org/focus-area/artificial-intelligence/
  • UNIDIR Artificial Intelligence Policy Portal: https://aipolicyportal.org/
• United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
  • Global Alliance on AI for Industry & Manufacturing: https://aim.unido.org/
• United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
  • The Ethical Use of Artificial Intelligence: https://www.unodc.org/ji/en/knowledge-products/artificial-intelligence.html
• United Nations University (UNU)
  https://unu.edu/topics/artificial-intelligence
  • UNU Artificial Intelligence Network: https://aimacau-2024.org/unu-ai-network/
  • UNU Global AI Network Members: https://unu.edu/macau/announcement/unu-global-ai-network-members
  • UNU Rector AI Lecture Series: AI Insights for a Sustainable Future (8 July 2025): https://unu.edu/macau/news/unu-rector-ai-lecture-series-ai-insights-sustainable-future
  • AI Literacy Highlighted at Global Sustainable Development Congress (24 June 2025):
    https://unu.edu/ias/news/ai-literacy-highlighted-global-sustainable-development-congress
  • UNU-CPR: Hamburg Declaration on Responsible AI for the SDGs (14 June 2025): https://unu.edu/cpr/news/hamburg-declaration-responsible-ai-sdgs
• United Nations Volunteers (UNV)
  • UNV optimizes data for the future (26 June 2024): https://www.unv.org/Success-stories/unv-optimizes-data-future
• Universal Postal Union (UPU)
  • UPU’s AI push boosts global postal collaboration and innovation (21 October 2025): https://www.upu.int/en/news/2025/october/upus-ai-push-boosts-global-postal-collaboration-and-innovation
  • Special delivery: how human-centred AI can strengthen postal resilience to natural hazards (25 June 2025): https://www.upu.int/en/blogs/special-delivery-how-humancentred-ai-can-strengthen-postal-resilience-to-natural-hazards
  • UPU launches AI-focused Innovation Challenge amidst postal conference (29 May 2024): https://www.upu.int/en/news/2024/may/upu-launches-aifocused-innovation-challenge-amidst-postal-conference
• World Food Programme (WFP)
  • Innovation Accelerator: https://innovation.wfp.org/
  • WFP Global Artificial Intelligence Strategy 2025 – 2027 (20 March 2025): https://www.wfp.org/publications/wfp-global-artificial-intelligence-strategy-2025-2027
  • Does artificial intelligence hold the key to ending hunger?: Technology is already making a telling difference to humanitarian efforts (15 May 2025): https://www.wfp.org/stories/does-artificial-intelligence-hold-key-ending-hunger
• World Health Organization (WHO)
  • Global Initiative on AI for Health: https://www.who.int/initiatives/global-initiative-on-ai-for-health
  • Big data and artificial intelligence: https://www.who.int/teams/health-ethics-governance/emerging-technologies/big-data-and-artificial-intelligence
  • WHO launches AI-powered all-hazards toolkit to accelerate health emergency response (15 May 2025): https://www.emro.who.int/media/news/who-launches-ai-powered-all-hazards-toolkit-to-accelerate-health-emergency-response.html
• World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
  • Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property: https://www.wipo.int/about-ip/en/frontier_technologies/ai_and_ip.html
    • WIPO Launches Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Interchange (17 March 2026): https://www.wipo.int/pressroom/en/articles/2026/article_0005.html
• World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
  • WMO faces the future, with action plan on Artificial Intelligence (20 June 2025): https://wmo.int/media/news/wmo-faces-future-action-plan-artificial-intelligence
  • WMO embraces private sector and academia on AI (20 June 2025): https://wmo.int/media/news/wmo-embraces-private-sector-and-academia-ai
• World Tourism Organization (UN Tourism)
  • UN Tourism launches Global Artificial Intelligence Challenge (28 November 2024): https://www.unwto.org/news/un-tourism-launches-global-artificial-intelligence-challenge
  • Transformational role of artificial intelligence highlighted as UN Tourism brings leaders together (7 November 2024): https://www.unwto.org/news/transformational-role-of-artificial-intelligence-highlighted-as-un-tourism-brings-leaders-together
• World Trade Organization (WTO)
  • Digital technologies and trade: https://www.wto.org/english/res_e/reser_e/digitaltech_e.htm
  • Members discuss impact of AI and emerging technologies on e-commerce (16 April 2025): https://www.wto.org/english/news_e/news25_e/ecom_16apr25_e.htm
  • WTO Secretariat hosts first conference on interplay between AI and global trade
    (21 November 2024): https://www.wto.org/english/news_e/news24_e/dtech_22nov24_e.htm

UN Events & Conferences

• Global Forums on the Ethics of AI: https://www.unesco.org/en/forum-ethics-ai
• Global Conference on AI, Security and Ethics, 18-19 June 2026: https://unidir.org/event/global-conference-on-ai-security-and-ethics-2026/
• High-level multi-stakeholder informal meeting to launch the Global Dialogue on Artificial Intelligence Governance, 25 September 2025
  • Concept note: https://tinyurl.com/yd58z5p6
• High-Level Open Debate on Artificial Intelligence, 24 September 2025
  • • Webcast: https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1d/k1d14vz0w5
    • Press Release: https://press.un.org/en/2025/sc16180.doc.htm
    • UN News Centre Story: https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/09/1165942
    • Concept note: https://docs.un.org/S/2025/593
• AI for Good Global Summit 2025 — 8-11 July 2025, Geneva, Switzerland: https://aiforgood.itu.int/summit25/
• How AI shapes and is shaped by international trade, WTO Conference, 21 November 2024: https://www.wto.org/english/res_e/reser_e/rese_2111202410_e/rese_2111202410_e.htm
• Bonn AI & Climate 2024 (1-2 July 2024)
  https://unu.edu/ehs/announcement/bonn-ai-climate-2024
  UNU-EHS, in collaboration with UNFCCC Technology Mechanism, is organizing an Expert Meeting on AI & Climate.
• AI for Good Global Summit 2024 — 30-31 May 2024, Geneva, Switzerland: https://aiforgood.itu.int/summit24/
• The UNU Macau AI Conference 2024: the Path towards AI For All, 25 April 2024
  https://aimacau-2024.org/
• United Nations Security Council Arria-Formula meeting on Artificial Intelligence, 19 December 2023 – Video: http://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1g/k1glfm55l2
• Security Council, 9381st meeting, 18 July 2023: “Artificial intelligence: opportunities and risks for international peace and security”
  • Webcast: https://media.un.org/avlibrary/en/asset/d307/d3072357
  • Press Release: https://press.un.org/en/2023/sc15359.doc.htm
  • UN News Centre Story: https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/07/1138827
  • Concept Note: https://docs.un.org/S/2023/528
  • Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality — Used Responsibly — Can Help Peacebuilding Efforts (Politically Speaking, 17 July 2023): https://bit.ly/43InFca
• AI For Good Global Summit 2023 — 6-7 July 2023, Geneva, Switzerland: https://aiforgood.itu.int/summit23/
• UNESCO International Forum on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Education — 5-6 December 2022: https://aiedforum.org

Research & Documentation

• ITU AI Repository: https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/AI/Pages/ai-repository.aspx
• AI Standards: https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/publications/Pages/recs.aspx
• ILO Library Research Guide – AI and the world of work: https://libguides.ilo.org/Artificial_intelligence/home
• ILO Library Research Guide – Generative AI and Research: https://www.ilo.org/research-and-publications/ilo-library-knowledge-hub/research-guides/research-guide-generative-ai-and-research

Selected Publications & Documents

• The Energy Sprint of the AI Race: A Green Window of Opportunity for Developing Countries? (UNDP, May 2026): https://www.undp.org/publications/energy-sprint-ai-race
• AI in human resource management: The limits of empiricism (ILO Working Paper 154): https://www.ilo.org/publications/ai-human-resource-management-limits-empiricism
• Public Institutions in the Age of AI: Emerging Practices (World Bank, May 2026): https://hdl.handle.net/10986/44855
• Strengthening Information Integrity – Issue Brief 2: Advertising, Artificial Intelligence and the Global Information Crisis: (April 2026): https://www.un.org/sites/un2.un.org/files/un-information-integrity-issue-brief-02.pdf
• Tipping point: Online violence impacts, manifestations and redress in the AI age (UN Women, April 2026): https://tinyurl.com/2carauup
• UN Chronicle, April-June 2026: Artificial intelligence: do we still need to think? https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000397871_eng
• Decoding Transparency: How to Foster Public Trust in Responsible AI Innovation in Law Enforcement (UNICRI, April 2026): https://unicri.org/News-Decoding-Transparency-Strengthening-Public-Trust-in-AI-for-Law-Enforcement-Apr-2026
• Artificial intelligence is reshaping health systems: state of readiness across the European Union (WHO/Europe, April 2026): https://www.who.int/europe/publications/i/item/WHO-EURO-2026-12707-52481-81471
• Workers’ exposure to AI: What indicators tell us – and what they don’t (ILO Research Brief, April 2026): https://tinyurl.com/w5camrrh
• Artificial Intelligence Strategy: The Independent Evaluation Group’s Journey of Discovery (World Bank, March 2026): https://hdl.handle.net/10986/44459
• Responsible AI in practice: 2025 global insights from the AI Company Data Initiative (UNESCO, March 2026): https://doi.org/10.54678/YJWP8855
• ClimateTech in Focus: Artificial Intelligence for Sustainability (UNU, February 2026): https://unu.edu/sites/default/files/2026-02/ClimateTech-in-Focus-2025-AI-for-Sustainability.pdf
• The Global Prism of Military AI Governance: Reflections from the 2025 Regional Consultations on Responsible AI in the Military Domain (UNIDIR, February 2026): https://unidir.org/publication/the-global-prism-of-military-ai-governance-reflections-from-the-2025-regional-consultations-on-responsible-ai-in-the-military-domain/
• AI Ready – Analysis Towards a Standardized Readiness Framework (ITU, January 2026): https://www.itu.int/dms_pub/itu-t/opb/ai4g/T-AI4G-AI4GOOD-2025-6-PDF-E.pdf
• Guidance on AI and Children: Updated guidance for governments and businesses to create AI policies and Systems that uphold children’s Rights (UNICEF, December 2025): https://www.unicef.org/innocenti/reports/policy-guidance-ai-children
• Unlocking AI’s Potential to Serve Humanity: Robotics, Geospatial AI and Communications Networks; 2025 Report (ITU / UNU-CPR, January 2026): https://collections.unu.edu/eserv/UNU:10446/Unlocking_AI_s_Potential_to_Serve_Humanity.pdf
• Improving Artificial Intelligence Standards for an Equitable Future (UNECE, December 2025): https://unece.org/sites/default/files/2025-11/2517467_E_PDF_WEB_updated.pdf
• Policy Report: Interoperability in AI Safety Governance; Ethics, Regulations, and Standards (UNU Macau, December 2025): https://collections.unu.edu/eserv/UNU:10363/Interoperability_in_AI_Safety_Governance.pdf
• Tipping point: The chilling escalation of violence against women in the public sphere in the age of AI (UN Women, December 2025): https://tinyurl.com/52m8z48p
• Interoperability in AI – Safety Governance: Ethics, Regulations, and Standards; The United Kingdom, South Korea, China and Singapore (UNU Macao Policy Report, December 2025): https://collections.unu.edu/eserv/UNU:10363/Interoperability_in_AI_Safety_Governance.pdf
• Guidelines for the use of AI systems in courts and tribunals (UNESCO, December 2025): https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000396582
• The Next Great Divergence: Why AI May Widen Inequality Between Countries (UNDP, December 2025): https://www.undp.org/asia-pacific/publications/next-great-divergence
• Digital Progress and Trends Report 2025: Strengthening AI Foundations (World Bank, November 2025): https://doi.org/10.1596/978-1-4648-2264-3
• AI in human resource management: The limits of empiricism (ILO Working Paper 154, November 2025): https://www.ilo.org/publications/ai-human-resource-management-limits-empiricism
• Who on Earth Is Using Generative AI? Global Trends and Shifts in 2025 (World Bank Policy Research Working Paper, October 2025): https://hdl.handle.net/10986/43859
• Handbook on Responsible Innovation in AI for International Peace and Security (UNODA Occasional Papers – No. 45, July 2025): https://doi.org/10.18356/9789211545418
• From Theory to Practice: A Strategic AI Integration Model for Revenue Administrations (World Bank, July 2025): https://hdl.handle.net/10986/43463
• Mapping the application of artificial intelligence in traditional medicine: technical brief (WHO / ITU / WIPO, July 2025): https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240107663
• Smarter, smaller, stronger: resource-efficient generative Al & the future of digital transformation (UNESCO, July 2025): https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000394521
• Red Teaming artificial intelligence for social good – The PLAYBOOK (UNESCO, 2025): https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000394338
• Innovative voluntary financing options for artificial intelligence capacity-building : report of the Secretary-General (A/79/966, 2 July 2025): https://docs.un.org/A/79/966
• Artificial Intelligence in the Military Domain and Its Implications for International Peace and Security: An Evidence-Based Road Map for Future Policy Action (UNIDIR, July 2025): https://tinyurl.com/mw8kftdz
• Visionary Versus Reactionary. The Future of Space Security in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (UNIDIR, June 2025): https://doi.org/10.37559/WMD/25/Space/03
• Devising a Strategic Approach to Artificial Intelligence: A Handbook for Policy Makers
  (World Bank, June 2025): https://hdl.handle.net/10986/43347
• AI Revolution in Higher Education: What you need to know (World Bank, June 2025): https://hdl.handle.net/10986/43298
• Artificial intelligence in the military domain and its implications for international peace and security: report of the Secretary-General (A/80/78, 5 June 2025): https://docs.un.org/A/80/78
• Generative AI and jobs: A 2025 update (ILO Research Brief, May 2025): https://www.ilo.org/publications/generative-ai-and-jobs-2025-update
• Freedom of expression, artificial intelligence and elections (UNDP / UNESCO, May 2025): https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000393473
• Human Development Report 2025: A matter of choice: people and possibilities in the age of Artificial Intelligence (AI) (UNDP, May 2025): https://hdr.undp.org/content/human-development-report-2025
• Artificial Intelligence Revolution in Higher Education: What You Need to Know (World Bank, May 2025): https://www.worldbank.org/en/region/lac/publication/ia-educacion-superior-inteligencia-artificial
• Revolutionizing Health and Safety: The Role of AI and Digitalization at Work (ILO, April 2025): https://www.ilo.org/publications/revolutionizing-health-and-safety-role-ai-and-digitalization-work
• Power Hungry: How AI Will Drive Energy Demand (IMF Working Paper No. 2025/081): https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2025/04/21/Power-Hungry-How-AI-Will-Drive-Energy-Demand-566304
• The Global Impact of AI: Mind the Gap (IMF Working Paper No. 2025/076): https://doi.org/10.5089/9798229008570.001
• AI in the Military Domain: A briefing note for States (UNIDIR, March 2025): https://unidir.org/publication/ai-military-domain-briefing-note-states/
• AI for Risk-Based Supervision: Another Nice to Have Tool or a Game-Changer (World Bank, February 2025): https://hdl.handle.net/10986/42874
• Beyond the AI Divide: A Simple Approach to Identifying Global and Local Overperformers in AI Preparedness (World Bank, February 2025): https://hdl.handle.net/10986/42856
• The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Regional Security, Threat Perceptions and the Middle East WMD-Free Zone (UNIDIR, 7 February 2025): https://unidir.org/publication/the-impact-of-artificial-intelligence-on-regional-security-threat-perceptions-and-the-middle-east-wmd-free-zone/
• The Exposure of Workers to Artificial Intelligence in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (World Bank, February 2025): https://hdl.handle.net/10986/42765
• Briefer on Human Rights and Artificial Intelligence in the Military Domain (OHCHR, 3 February 2025): https://www.ohchr.org/en/documents/brochures-and-leaflets/briefer-human-rights-and-artificial-intelligence-military-domain
• “Cautiously Optimistic”: Young people’s thoughts about the impacts and influences of Generative Artificial Intelligence (UNU Macao Research Brief No.1, February 2025): https://unu.edu/macau/brief/cautiously-optimistic-young-peoples-thoughts-about-impacts-and-influences-generative
• Not Just Another Tool: Public Perceptions of Police Use of Artificial Intelligence (UNICRI, November 2024): https://unicri.it/sites/default/files/2024-11/Public-Perceptions-Police-Use-Artificial-Intelligence.pdf
• Trading with intelligence: How AI shapes and is shaped by international trade (WTO, November 2024): https://www.wto.org/english/res_e/publications_e/trading_with_intelligence_e.htm
• Understanding Artificial Intelligence in Tax and Customs Administration: Technical Notes and Manuals (IMF, November 2024): https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/TNM/Issues/2024/11/21/Understanding-Artificial-Intelligence-in-Tax-and-Customs-Administration-555097
• Compliance of products with embedded artificial intelligence (UNECE, October 2024): https://unece.org/info/publications/pub/396212
• Draft Guidelines for the Development of a National Strategy on AI in Security and Defence (UNIDIR, 24 October 2024): https://unidir.org/publication/draft-guidelines-for-the-development-of-a-national-strategy-on-ai-in-security-and-defence/
• AI for Good Impact Report (ITU, October 2024): https://tinyurl.com/35u585zc
• G7 toolkit for artificial intelligence in the public sector; report prepared for the 2024 Italian G7 presidency and the G7 digital and tech working group (OECD / UNESCO, October 2024): https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000391566
• Generative AI: A New Threat for Online Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (UNICRI Centre for AI and Robotics, September 2024): https://unicri.org/generative-ai-new-threat-online-child-sexual-exploitation-and-abuse-september-2024
• Global Assessment of Responsible Artificial Intelligence in Cities: Research and recommendations to leverage AI for people-centred smart cities (UNU-EGOV / UN-Habitat / IDRC, September 2024): https://collections.unu.edu/view/UNU:9789
• Governance of Artificial Intelligence in the Military Domain: A Multi-stakeholder Perspective on Priority Areas (Policy Brief) (UNIDIR, September 2024): https://unidir.org/publication/governance-of-artificial-intelligence-in-the-military-domain-a-multi-stakeholder-perspective-on-priority-areas/
• The Global Kaleidoscope of Military AI Governance (UNIDIR, September 2024): https://unidir.org/publication/the-global-kaleidoscope-of-military-ai-governance/
• Gender and Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (UNIDIR August 2024): https://unidir.org/publication/gender-and-lethal-autonomous-weapons-systems/
• From Al Hol to Hope: Navigating Return and Reintegration Challenges (Findings Report 37, UNIDIR, August 2024): https://doi.org/10.37559/MEAC/24/06
• Harnessing the Power of AI for Climate Change Impact Assessment (UNU-INWEH, 2024)
  https://collections.unu.edu/eserv/UNU:9738/Harnessing_the_Power_of_AI__Obringer__2024_.pdf
• The UNU Macau AI Conference 2024: Conference Proceedings Report: https://unu.edu/macau/news/unu-macau-ai-conference-2024-conference-proceedings-report
• AI Hub for Sustainable Development: Strengthening Local AI Ecosystems through Collective Action (UNDP, July 2024): https://www.undp.org/publications/ai-hub-sustainable-development-strengthening-local-ai-ecosystems-through-collective-action
• UNU Macau Ai Conference AI For All: Bridging Divides, Building a Sustainable Future / Policy Directions distilled by UNU Macau – A Contribution to the Summit of the future (July 2024): https://unu.edu/sites/default/files/2024-07/UNU_AI_ConferencePolicyReport_ADV6.pdf
• Patent Landscape Report – Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) (WIPO, July 2024): https://www.wipo.int/web-publications/patent-landscape-report-generative-artificial-intelligence-genai/index.html
• Confidence-Building Measures for Artificial Intelligence: A Multilateral Perspective (UNIDIR, July 2024): https://unidir.org/publication/confidence-building-measures-for-artificial-intelligence-a-multilateral-perspective/
• Artificial Intelligence in Social Security Organizations (UNU-EGOV / ISSA, June 2024): https://unu.edu/sites/default/files/2024-06/2-AI%20in%20SecSoc%202024.pdf
• UNESCO Global Judges’ Initiative: survey on the use of AI systems by judicial operators (June 2024): https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000389786
• AI and the Holocaust: rewriting history? The impact of artificial intelligence on understanding the Holocaust (UNESCO, June 2024): https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000390211
• United Nations Activities on Artificial Intelligence (AI) (ITU, June 2024): https://www.itu.int/hub/publication/s-gen-unact-2023/
• Artificial intelligence and democracy (UNESCO, May 2024): https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000389736
• Artificial Intelligence for Health: Supporting countries to deploy responsible AI technologies to accelerate equitable health for all (WHO, May 2024): https://www.who.int/publications/m/item/artificial-intelligence-for-health
• Disinformation and Peacebuilding in Sub-Saharan Africa: Security Implications of AI-Altered Information Environments (UNU Report, 13 February 2024): https://unu.edu/publication/disinformation-and-peacebuilding-sub-saharan-africa
• Artificial intelligence governance to reinforce the 2030 Agenda and leave no one behind (E/C.16/2024/7, 29 January 2024): https://docs.un.org/E/C.16/2024/7
• Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property: An Economic Perspective – Economic Research Working Paper No.77 (WIPO, 2024): https://www.wipo.int/publications/en/details.jsp?id=4715&plang=EN
• Getting the innovation ecosystem ready for AI: An IP policy toolkit (WIPO, 2024): https://www.wipo.int/publications/en/details.jsp?id=4711&plang=EN
• A Guide to Generative AI and Intellectual Property (WIPO, 2024): https://www.wipo.int/publications/en/details.jsp?id=4713&plang=EN
• The Economic Impacts and the Regulation of AI: A Review of the Academic Literature and Policy Actions (IMF Working Paper No. 2024/065): https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2024/03/22/The-Economic-Impacts-and-the-Regulation-of-AI-A-Review-of-the-Academic-Literature-and-546645
• UNESCO Courier, October-December 2023: Education in the age of artificial intelligence: https://courier.unesco.org/en/articles/education-age-artificial-intelligence
• Gen-AI: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work (ILO, January 2024): https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/Staff-Discussion-Notes/Issues/2024/01/14/Gen-AI-Artificial-Intelligence-and-the-Future-of-Work-542379
• AI and International Security: Understanding the Risks and Paving the Path for Confidence-Building Measures (UNIDIR, October 2023): https://unidir.org/publication/ai-and-international-security-understanding-the-risks-and-paving-the-path-for-confidence-building-measures/
• Artificial Intelligence Beyond Weapons: Application and Impact of AI in the Military Domain (UNIDIR, October 2023): https://unidir.org/publication/artificial-intelligence-beyond-weapons-application-and-impact-of-ai-in-the-military-domain/
• Guidance for generative AI in education and research (UNESCO, September 2023): https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000386693
• The Use of Synthetic Data to Train AI Models: Opportunities and Risks for Sustainable Development (UNU Policy Brief, September 2023): https://unu.edu/publication/use-synthetic-data-train-ai-models-opportunities-and-risks-sustainable-development
• Toolkit for Responsible AI Innovation in Law Enforcement (UNICRI and INTERPOL, June 2023): https://unicri.it/Publication/Toolkit-for-Responsible-AI-Innovation-in-Law-Enforcement-UNICRI-INTERPOL
• Our Common Agenda – Policy Brief 5: A Global Digital Compact – An Open, Free and Secure Digital Future for All (May 2023): https://www.un.org/sites/un2.un.org/files/our-common-agenda-policy-brief-gobal-digi-compact-en.pdf
• Reporting on artificial intelligence: a handbook for journalism educators (UNESCO, 2023): https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000384551
• Open data for AI: what now? (UNESCO, 2023): https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000385841
• Global toolkit on AI and the rule of law for the judiciary (UNESCO, 2023): https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000387331
• Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (UNESCO, 2022): https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000381137
• 2022 United Nations Activities on Artificial Intelligence (AI) Report: https://www.itu.int/dms_pub/itu-s/opb/gen/S-GEN-UNACT-2022-PDF-E.pdf
• Inside AI: An Algorithmic Adventure (UNESCO’s first graphic novel on Artificial Intelligence, 2022): https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/inside-ai-algorithmic-adventure
• Multistakeholder AI development: 10 building blocks for inclusive policy design (UNESCO, 2022): https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/multistakeholder-ai-development
• The Effects of AI on the Working Lives of Women (UNESCO/OECD/IDB, 2022): https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/effects-ai-working-lives-women
• Artificial intelligence and digital transformation: competencies for civil servants (UNESCO, 2022): https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/artificial-intelligence-and-digital-transformation
• Ageism in artificial intelligence for health (WHO Policy Brief, 9 February 2022): https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240040793
• Policy guidance on AI for children (UNICEF, November 2021): https://www.unicef.org/globalinsight/reports/policy-guidance-ai-children
• The right to privacy in the digital age: Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (A/HRC/48/31, 13 September 2021): https://docs.un.org/A/HRC/48/31
  In this report, mandated by the Human Rights Council in its resolution 42/15, the High Commissioner analyses how the widespread use by States and businesses of artificial intelligence, including profiling, automated decision-making and machine-learning technologies, affects the enjoyment of the right to privacy and associated rights
• Ethics and governance of artificial intelligence for health (WHO guidance, 28 June 2021): https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240029200
• Resource Guide on Artificial Intelligence Strategies (April 2021): https://www.itu.int/dms_pub/itu-s/opb/gen/S-GEN-UNACT-2022-PDF-E.pdf
• From Digital Promise to Frontline Practice: New and Emerging Technologies in Humanitarian Action (OCHA, April 2021): https://www.unocha.org/sites/unocha/files/OCHA%20Technology%20Report.pdf
• Artificial intelligence and privacy, and children’s privacy: report of the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Privacy, Joseph A. Cannataci (A/HRC/46/37, 25 January 2021): https://docs.un.org/A/HRC/46/37
• Report of the High-level Committee on Programmes on its virtual consultation on the ethics of artificial intelligence (CEB/2020/6/Add.1, 21 August 2020): https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/3895564
• The militarization of artificial intelligence (August 2019): https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/3972613
• New Technologies: Where To? (UN Chronicle, Nos. 3 & 4, Vol. LV, 2018): https://www.un.org/en/issue/380

Further information

• Seize opportunity to lend your insights, judgements on crucial issue of artificial intelligence, Secretary-General tell welcoming reception for AI Scientific Panel (SG/SM/23096, 22 April 2026): https://press.un.org/en/2026/sgsm23096.doc.htm
• How can we harness AI to tackle the complexity of disaster risk? Op Ed by Kamal Kishore, Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction (22 July 2025): https://www.undrr.org/news/how-can-we-harness-ai-tackle-complexity-disaster-risk
• ‘Life-and-death situations must never be left to chance, code, corporate interest’, Secretary-General tells Conference on Artificial Intelligence (SG/SM/22605, 27 March 2025): https://press.un.org/en/2025/sgsm22605.doc.htm
• Safeguarding Human Rights and Information Integrity in the Age of Generative AI
  (UN Chronicle, 25 November 2024): https://www.un.org/en/un-chronicle/safeguarding-human-rights-and-information-integrity-age-generative-ai
• AI from Google Research and UN boosts humanitarian disaster response: Wider coverage, faster damage assessments (UN Global Pulse, 17 October 2024): https://www.unglobalpulse.org/ai-from-google-research-and-un-boosts-humanitarian-disaster-response-wider-coverage-faster-damage-assessments/
• Artificial intelligence can ‘save lives, create jobs, foster progress’, Secretary-General tells Seoul Summit (SG/SM/22236, 21 May 2024): https://press.un.org/en/2024/sgsm22236.doc.htm
• Without adequate guardrails, artificial intelligence threatens global security in evolution from algorithms to armaments, speaker tells First Committee: Cyberissues have become foreign policy issues of urgent concern, says another (GA/DIS/3725, 24 October 2023): https://press.un.org/en/2023/gadis3725.doc.htm

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