09Sep

Open letter to the President of UNGA for Governance of the Transition to AGI

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Political, business and academic leaders in AI and futures research from around the world request that the President of the UN General Assembly convene a special session on the governance of the transition to Artificial General Intelligence – AGI. An Open Letter signed by 230 political, business, and academic leaders in AI and Futures Research […]

26Jul

The Millennium Project at the UN Summit of the Future

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Jerome Glenn, CEO and co-founder of The Millennium Project, will represent the organization at the upcoming United Nations Summit of the Future, an historic meeting set to take place in New York this September 22-23, 2024, together with other Node Chairs from The Millennium Project joining the event. The Summit, a high-level event bringing world […]

23May

SIDS Smart Futures Fest – May 24-26, 2024

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Jerome Glenn, Executive Director of The Millennium Project, will be speaking on May 24 at the SIDS SMART FUTURES FESTIVAL, a three day learning event designed to engage those interested in the development agenda of the 55 member nations of the Alliance of Small Island States. The Agenda is designed to ensure opportunity for participation […]

31Jan

The Millennium Project Newsletter – January, 2024

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A new issue of our Newsletter is out! Discover FUTURES version 2.0, our World Foresight Encyclopedic Dictionary, and the Chinese and Spanish versions of our report on “International Governance Issues of the Transition from Artificial Narrow Intelligence to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) – First phase”. Join World Futures Day 2024 on March 1st and support […]

14Dec

Contributions to the UN Pact for the Future by The Millennium Project

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Many from The Millennium Project attendend the recent virtual consultation on the Summit of the Future organized by the Co-Facilitators of the Intergovernmental Preparatory Process of the Summit and held on December 13, 2023. Jerome Glenn, executive director and co-founder of The Millennium Project, and Ambassador Héctor Casanueva, Founding Chair of the Chile Node of […]

22Sep

Mini Trip report: New York, UNGA side meetings

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artificial general intelligence, technology, united nations

By Jerome C. Glenn During the UN General Assembly every September, New York turns into a massive traffic grid lock. My visit began with the Global Futures 23 side meeting led by Arizona State University where Ketan Panel spoke about moving financial management firms toward sustainable development. Next, I attended the meeting on UN AI […]

31Jul

Suggestions for the UN Summit for the Future

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Futurists contact your Ministry of Foreign Affairs! There will be a Ministerial Meeting for the UN Summit for the Future September 18th this year for input planning for the following year’s Summit on the Future 2024. The Millennium Project suggests that Futurists in each country contact their Ministry of Foreign Affairs and find out their […]

21Jul

UN Security Council meeting on Artificial Intelligence on July 18, 2023 – intake

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by Jerome Glenn The UN Security Council first ever meeting on AI opened with briefings from Jack Clark of Anthropic (developer of Claude 2 recent competitor with ChatGPT) and Yi Zeng, Cognitive Intelligence Lab, Instituted of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Jack Clark said governments should come together to create safe AI and not let […]

08Sep

UN Global Pulse Data Governance 2050 Scenarios survey – Deadline Sept. 13, 2022

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Rohit Talwar, Co-Chair of the UK Node currently working with the Anticipation Team of the UN Global Pulse Organisation that reports to the Secretary General’s Office, invites you to take part in the UN Global Pulse Data Governance 2050 Scenarios survey. A fuller contextual outline is provided below. Please select ‘Millennium Project’ as the survey […]

07Sep

Science Summit at UNGA77 – September 13-20, 2022

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The 8th edition of the Science Summit at United Nations General Assembly (UNGA77), organized by ISC and its partners in the framework of the 77th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA77), will take place on September 13-30, 2022. The role and contribution of science to attaining the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the central […]

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