The United Nations General Assembly greenlit Monday (July 1) a China-sponsored, United States-backed resolution on artificial intelligence, signaling a potential sea change in global AI regulation and commerce. This cooperation between the two tech titans comes just months after a U.S.-led AI safety measure, highlighting...
New United Nations data showed China with a comfortable lead in the race to develop artificial intelligence products. Between 2014 and last year, more than 38,000 generative AI inventions came out of China, six times the amount of those coming from the second-place United States,...
Austria says the time has come to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) use in weapons systems. Left unchecked, such technology could create “killer robots,” officials in the Alpine country said as they hosted a conference on the issue, per a Monday (April 29) Reuters report. “We cannot let...
Depending on who’s asked, artificial intelligence (AI) represents either the destruction or salvation of civilization. That’s because the increasingly popular innovative technology could either displace today’s jobs or power an explosion in future productivity. It is a bit of a coin flip — and the...
February 14, 2020
The United Nations wants every individual digitally verified by 2030, in a bid to promote financial inclusion and reduce fraud. Trulioo Chief Operating Officer Zac Cohen tells Karen Webster the devil is in the details, since not every person can produce the same proof of identity across emerging and developed economies. That’s why, he says, that a digital identity must be built in layers.
September 19, 2018
Credit unions (CUs), by default, are cooperative in nature. Many are tapping into their cooperative natures to pursue innovations, so as to compete aggressively and keep up with larger financial...
July 03, 2024
New United Nations data showed China with a comfortable lead in the race to develop artificial intelligence products. Between 2014 and last year, more than 38,000 generative AI inventions came out of China, six times the amount of those coming from the second-place United States, the U.N.’s World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) said in a […]
April 29, 2024
Austria says the time has come to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) use in weapons systems. Left unchecked, such technology could create “killer robots,” officials in the Alpine country said as they hosted...
February 07, 2023
The United Nations says North Korea stole a record amount of cryptocurrency assets last year. As Reuters reported Tuesday (Feb. 7), a confidential UN report says that North Korea targeted...
October 04, 2022
Monetary policies instituted to offset inflation in developed nations like the U.S. and the U.K. are negatively affecting emerging markets, causing the United Nations and other transnational institutions to sound...
