Together, we can ensure that generative AI is used appropriately, and that its benefits are achieved without endangering information integrity and human rights. 

Through action or inaction, it is people, not machines, who will determine what tomorrow’s society will look like. 

Technological advances in the mental health domain may modify our practices, and for this reason we are forced to exercise ethical caution.

Under-Secretary-General Amandeep Gill, the Secretary-General's Envoy on Technology, discusses the state of artificial intelligence (AI), its potential use by the United Nations to address global problems, and the need for international AI governance. 

It is one thing to utilize AI to draft memos or automate workflow in a company, but the work of United Nations professionals involves engaging in policy and operational decision-making that has tangible human consequences on the societal and everyday levels at a global scale.

2020 marks the 75th Anniversary of the founding of the United Nations.  To commemorate this milestone, United Nations Academic Impact has asked academics, educators and leading figures in the fields of science, technology and innovation to share their views on the multilateral experiment born of war to foster peace, what they see as the role of the organization in the 21st Century and beyond, and what the world might look like in 25 years when the UN celebrates its 100th anniversary.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is converging with an extraordinary array of other technologies, from biotech and genomics, to neurotechnology, robotics, cybertechnology and manufacturing systems. Increasingly, these technologies are decentralized, beyond State control, and available to a wide range of actors around the world.