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Blockchain and crypto projects joined the Climate Change Conference in Dubai and unveiled initiatives focusing on contributing to the fight against climate change.

United Nations Development Program Partners Algorand to Train 22,000 Employees in Blockchain Technology

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), which is tasked with eliminating poverty in over 170 countries, wants to educate its 22,000 staff on distributed ledger technology.

UN scientists evaluated the activities of 76 Bitcoin mining nations during the 2020–2021 period and found that the global BTC mining network consumed 173.42 TW/hs of electricity.

The list of participants includes tech industry leaders, government representatives from Spain to Saudi Arabia, and scholars from the U.S., Russia, and Japan.

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and the Dutch government launched a new project for supervising AI to help create a framework for the wider EU area.

The crypto Travel Rule, which came into effect on Sept. 1, aims to stop anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing activities carried out on-chain.

The International Labour Organization study says that AI will more likely augment jobs than destroy them, though certain roles could be at more risk than others.

The AI for Good global summit hosted by the UN tech agency invited a panel of robots and their creators to a press conference to answer questions from reporters.

Artificial intelligence has provided the world with tools that might make life easier. But there has also been a slew of disturbing developments.

The United Nations body called on all member states to implement the Travel Rule “without delay” to close “loopholes” not currently protected by regulation.

The UN wants to address AI-generated fake news and information as the organization looks to bring in voluntary guidelines for the technology.

The IMF‘s Kristalina Georgieva said wholesale CBDCs, on the other hand, have “fairly little space for undesirable surprises.”

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The group believes GPT-4 violates Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act, which prohibits “unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce.”

Evercity‘s Alexey Shadrin shares his insights from last month‘s World Economic Forum in Davos.

Tether is set to collaborate with anti-child-abuse network INHOPE to help the industry combat child abuse material marketplaces.

A United Nations official makes the case for the underlying technology behind cryptocurrencies.