United Nations News

The UN Development Programme, which is tasked with eliminating poverty in over 170 countries, wants to educate its 22,000 staff on distributed ledger technology.

UN scientists evaluated the activities of 76 Bitcoin mining nations during the 2020–2021 period and found that the global BTC mining network consumed 173.42 TW/hs of electricity.

The list of participants includes tech industry leaders, government representatives from Spain to Saudi Arabia, and scholars from the U.S., Russia and Japan.

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and the Dutch government launched a new project for supervising AI to help create a framework for the wider EU area.

The crypto Travel Rule, which came into effect on Sept. 1, aims to stop money laundering and terrorist financing activities carried out on-chain.

The International Labour Organization study says that AI will more likely augment jobs than destroy them, though certain roles could be at more risk than others.

The AI for Good global summit hosted by the U.N. tech agency invited a panel of robots and their creators to a press conference to answer questions from reporters.

Artificial intelligence has provided the world with tools that might make life easier. But there has also been a slew of disturbing developments.

The United Nations body called on all member states to implement the Travel Rule “without delay” to close “loopholes” not currently protected by regulation.

The United Nations wants to address AI-generated fake news and information as the organization looks to bring in voluntary guidelines for the technology.

International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva says that wholesale CBDCs, on the other hand, have “fairly little space for undesirable surprises.”

The group believes GPT-4 violates Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act, which prohibits “unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce.”

Evercity's Alexey Shadrin shares his insights from last month's World Economic Forum in Davos.

Tether is set to collaborate with anti-child-abuse network INHOPE to help the industry combat child abuse material marketplaces.

Climate change initiatives led by politicians and sponsored by some of the biggest polluters demand a change in initiatives — Decentralized tech could play a key role.