Professor Tsirizi Marwala, Rector of the United Nations University, spoke. Geneva solution On the sidelines of the United Nations Global Dialogue on AI Governance.
This interview explores a variety of topics, including key takeaways from the conversation, recent high-profile UNU research on the environmental costs of AI, how AI will shape the future of education, and how literacy, education, and governance overlap, primarily around AI.
”Policy makers don’t need to be engineers. Still, it requires enough fluency to ask the right questions, recognize when a company’s claims don’t hold water, and write values like transparency, fairness, and accountability into law in a way that is actually enforceable. Changing behavior, whether by legislators, businesses or the public, needs to be built on that understanding. You cannot regulate or use responsibly something you do not fully understand
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”Universities have always preferred to present themselves as stable and enduring institutions, and have been somewhat immune to broader trends. AI reminds us how fragile that self-image actually is. When AI can do the analytical work that students were being tested on, we will need to rethink not only how we teach, but also what we are actually assessing and why.”
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