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UNESCO to develop ethical standards in artificial intelligence

The Member States of UNESCO decided Thursday, November 21 to mandate this UN agency to work on the development of ethical standards in artificial intelligence, Les Affaires reports.

“It was a unanimous decision on the part of countries with very different positions on these issues, “it’s a good day,” the United Nations Secretariat for the United Nations education, science and culture said after the decision of the 193 member countries.

UNESCO will therefore call on international experts to work over the next 18 months on “the first global normative instrument” in this area.

Experts will therefore consider how to frame the development of AI by a number of key principles, without hindering it. 

They will consider all the subjects they consider necessary, linked for example to cultural or gender diversity, or to the dissemination of knowledge and technologies, since developing countries do not wish to not stay out of this technological revolution.

One of the most frequently mentioned problems in AI is discriminatory algorithms, because of the biases introduced by humans.  

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