Maria Ressa talks about how in an Eritrean language, AI changes ‘smallpox’ to ‘syphilis’, and sometimes confuses ‘medicine’ and ‘insecticide’, which obviously has public health implications.

This type of work ‘AI performance and safety issues in other languages and its impact on people’ is 50% of the work I do.

I’m glad Maria Ressa is involved in this work. She’s now talking about chatbots, teenagers, suicide.

“Civil society has been saying this for years. You now have more evidence now for what you’ve been saying.”

https://www.un.org/independent-international-scientific-panel-ai/en/preliminary-report

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“Industry, you now have the same evidence we all have, plus more evidence that only you can see”

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Libya: we know that African countries and those participating the least in greenhouse emissions today.. will also not be benefiting from AI and contributing to the emissions from data centers

Just as we would refuse for our natural resources to be exploited by others, we do the same with data

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An overview of the big report released here this week

https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2026/0702/UN-report-AI-brings-enormous-opportunities-and-plenty-of-risks

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Eswatini:

We meet in Geneva at a defining moment in humanity. AI is no longer a distant innovation.

For countries like Eswatini, AI governance must begin with ‘technology must serve the people’.

AI must not narrow the world into a single identity or values or homogeneity. This is especially important for small developing states, who must not become mere consumers of technology made elsewhere, technology made without regard for their needs.

Algorithms must be required to adhere to human rights, safety and public interest standards. AI systems must not be permitted to self regulate. Human oversight must remain at the center. Children must be protected from addictive design and manipulation by systems they cannot understand.

Voluntary enforcement is not enough.

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"An experiment is being run on our own societies without a plan and without our consent,"

UN Secretary General António Guterres said while calling for a global ban on ‘killer robots’

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Spain:

We are speaking on defending human rights against techno fascism

About whether our society should move forward or back

You can count on Spain in moving forward in regulating AI

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China:

AI governance is the shared task of all countries. Chinese president calls for equitable AI governance. China has consistently supported the UN as the primary channel for global AI governance.

Regardless of size, strength or social system, China has the AI action plan for cooperation and stands ready to share AI capacity building especially with the global south

Open source cooperation. Open source AI is a shared asset. Chinese open source models like DeepSeek and Qwen have lowered the barrier.

AI also brings unforeseen risks. China firmly upholds balancing development and safety. China stands ready to work with all parties on frameworks, standards and norms based on international standards.

China calls on all parties to strengthen solidarity.

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