Tag: AI

UN summit confronts AI’s dawn of wonders and warnings

Stuart Mitchell

The AI for Good Global Summit 2025 brings together governments, tech leaders, academics, civil society and young people to explore how artificial intelligence can be directed toward Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – and away from growing risks of inequality, disinformation and environmental strain. “We are the AI generation,” said Doreen Bogdan-Martin, chief of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) – UN’s specialized agency for information and communications technology – in a keynote address. But being part of this generation means more than just using these technologies. “It means contributing to this…

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UK’s best AI engineers can apply now to build tech for public services in $1 million fellowship

Stuart Mitchell

A new $1 million programme will bring the UK’s top AI experts into government to build cutting-edge AI tools, helping to make the state more agile so it can deliver the Plan for Change.  Fellows could join government to build AI tools for high-security use cases across the public sector such as language translation in a national security context, and making use of construction planning data to speed up the approvals process and get more homes built.  They could also help expand “Humphrey”, a bundle of AI tools that help…

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WMO faces the future, with action plan on Artificial Intelligence

Stuart Mitchell

A new Joint Advisory Group on Artificial Intelligence will inform WMO activities in relation to the development and use of AI intelligence technologies in meteorology and hydrology. It will seek to accelerate integration of AI into the WMO infrastructure and research activities. There is a special focus on incorporating AI in the WMO Integrated Processing and Prediction System (WIPPS) – which is the backbone of all forecasting.   WMO will work collaboratively with the public, private and academic sectors in applying AI and machine learning technologies to strengthen the entire…

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CAP – Disclosure of AI in Advertising: Striking the Balance Between Creativity and Responsibility

Stuart Mitchell

The ASA/CAP have released a post called: Disclosure of AI in Advertising: Striking the Balance Between Creativity and Responsibility. I have enclosed the text of the link below, but please have a look at the ASA/CAP site as there are lots of things of interest to anyone with an interest in Ethical Marketing. In the last five years, we’ve seen dramatic progress in the development of machine learning, with AI becoming a game-changing technology with countless applications. As a nascent form of technology and one regarded as important to economic…

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CAP – Disclosure of AI in Advertising: Striking the Balance Between Creativity and Responsibility

Stuart Mitchell

The ASA/CAP have released a post called: Disclosure of AI in Advertising: Striking the Balance Between Creativity and Responsibility. I have enclosed the text of the link below, but please have a look at the ASA/CAP site as there are lots of things of interest to anyone with an interest in Ethical Marketing. In the last five years, we’ve seen dramatic progress in the development of machine learning, with AI becoming a game-changing technology with countless applications. As a nascent form of technology and one regarded as important to economic…

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