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Global push for AI governance amid warnings of ‘catastrophic harm’

Can artificial intelligence benefit all of humanity – safely, fairly and without causing “catastrophic harm”? That is the question at the heart of a major UN summit opening in Geneva on Monday.

UN News - Global perspective Human stories · 4 min read

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Arts & Culture·5 December 2025

Lily Koppel: Paper-and-Pen Diaries Are Forever

I love diaries — physical, bound paper books filled with handwriting — more and more as the digital has taken over so much of our lives. I have an existential terror of losing my human coherence, my voice, to the chatbot. Human thought,…

NEW YORK TIMES · 6 min read

Arts & Culture·8 March 2025

Fundació Miró Mallorca: Max de Esteban

The exhibition, curated by Antònia Maria Perelló, reflects on the human condition, technology and the society generated by post-capitalism in the 21st century. Its launch willl start with an enriching and blatant conversation between the…

Fundació Miró Mallorca · 4 min read

Education·14 July 2024

UN Launches Global Principles for Information Integrity

The UN has formulated principles to guide technology companies, artificial intelligence (AI) actors, advertisers, and other private sector actors, as well as news media, researchers, civil society, governments, and the UN in their efforts…

SDG KNOWLEDGE HUB · 2 min read

Arts & Culture·19 October 2024

Innovative Museums set to open Globally in 2024

The pandemic left many museums worldwide fighting for survival, with world cities reporting a 48% average fall in museum attendance from 2019 – 2022 (Source: World Cities Culture Report 2022).

WORLD CITIES CULTURE FORUM · 2 min read

Climate·6 October 2025

Serpentine Galleries: Back to Earth

Seba Calfuqueo, Tray Tray Ko, video, 6’13, 2022, film still, photo by: Sebastian Melo.

ON Network · 3 min read

Climate·26 December 2021

Climate intelligence, an opportunity to boost climate resilience

Climate intelligence is becoming an increasingly popular technology as it enables the prediction of climate risks in advance, making public and private entities more resilient to the extremes caused by climate changes. Although it is still…

ON Network · 3 min read