AI DEVELOPMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY GAINS INTERNATIONAL NOTORIETY

By Jacob Matthew Moreno

Correspondent for Al Jazeera English of Qatar, reporting for the MUNFW World Press

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On Monday afternoon, 20 April, delegates in the Second Committee of the General Assembly at Model United Nations of the Far West (MUNFW) discussed Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the context of sustainability and usage in developing parts of the world.

In an interview with Al Jazeera, the delegate of Guinea, Joshua Shepard, mentioned plans amongst the body to create a new United Nations (UN) Committee on Regulation of AI. He stressed that such a committee would “absolutely be recommendations. The UN is the organization of recommendations. We believe that by providing member states the option.”

Shepard completed his thoughts, saying that the goal of this AI Committee would be to provide states with “the research and the information that they can use to therefore implement that into their own committees. Guinea ultimately wants information transparency.”

Other notable voices in the Committee’s unmoderated caucus were Qatar and Germany, who continued to be a leading pair in trying to merge the eight resolutions that floated around that afternoon.

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