United Nations, United States, Feb 5, 2026 (AFP) - Filipina Nobel laureate, Canadian tech pioneer nominated to UN's AI panel

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2026-02-05

Journalist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa of the Philippines, and Canadian artificial intelligence pioneer Yoshua Bengio are among 40 experts poised to serve on a United Nations AI panel, officials announced Wednesday. Also named among the proposed independent experts to serve for three years on the panel is Joelle Barral, a French national who is senior director for research and engineering at Google's DeepMind. Ethiopian national Gi......

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