Journalist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa is among 40 experts selected to serve on a United Nations AI panel, officials announced.
Besides the Filipina, others named on Wednesday among the independent experts who will serve for three years on the panel are Canadian artificial intelligence pioneer Yoshua Bengio and 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 said.
The members’ expertise spans a range of fields, from machine learning to data governance and cybersecurity, as well as public health, child development and human rights. — AFP
