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By Sou-Jie van Brunnersum October 4, 2026 AI, misinformation and disinformation are increasingly being used to spread anti-migrant narratives, encourage hostility and expose migrants to a greater risk of discrimination and violence, warns the UN Migration Agency IOM. Various studies exploring the links between technology, migration and the far-right show how online hate and misinformation can lead to real-world harm against migrants. Credit: Simon Chapman/London News Pictures

By Evie Breese November 6, 2026 (Credit: AP Photo/ Alastair Grant) The day Google DeepMind research engineer Sofia Liguori returned to work following the birth of her first child was the day her activism began. The 32-year-old was part of the London-based frontier AI lab’s sustainability-focused Impact Accelerator team, tasked with identifying new ways the technology can be used for good. These range “from pathogen detection and crop resilience to medical countermeasure accel

By Marion Bordier November 9, 2026 Credit: Pexels African-American English being disproportionately associated with negative stereotypes, facial recognition systems making more errors when identifying people of colour, and AI assistants offering safety advice simply because you mention being with an Algerian or Lebanese person: these examples raise a troubling question. Can artificial intelligence reproduce racial prejudice while presenting itself as neutral? Speaking to Belg

India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, with the Facebook chief, Mark Zuckerberg. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images May 20, 2024 Hannah Ellis-Petersen The Facebook and Instagram owner Meta approved a series of AI-manipulated political adverts during India’s election that spread disinformation and incited religious violence, according to a report shared exclusively with the Guardian. Facebook approved adverts containing known slurs towards Muslims in India, such as “let’s burn

By International Organization for Migration (IOM) November 2, 2026 IOM Director General Amy Pope addresses the International Dialogue on Migration in Geneva, highlighting the need to rebuild trust in migration governance. Photo: IOM/Burak Cerci Geneva, 2 November 2026 – Misinformation about migration is spreading fast, increasingly amplified by artificial intelligence. It is turning anxiety into suspicion and people into targets, the head of the UN Migration agency warned tod

By UN Meetings Coverage an Press Releases (GA/SHC/4455) November 2, 2026 General Assembly/ Third Committee, Eighty-First Session, 37th & 38th Meetings (AM & PM): Racism and xenophobia are resurging worldwide, as artificial intelligence threatens to entrench discrimination and digital platforms amplify hatred, United Nations experts warned the Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) today, calling for urgent action to confront racial injustice and the enduring lega

By: Janine Deselaers and Janet Heard November 1, 2026 The current alarm about the future dangers of agentic AI might distract us from the very real AI harms already happening. As we speculate about whether machines might one day become dangerous to humankind, AI is deepening misogyny, eroding safety and automating gendered abuse. Credit: iStock/Jocelyn Adamson Debate about “agentic AI”, systems that act independently and might go “rogue”, has prompted fresh calls for a pause

By Abraham Kebede October 30, 2026 Credit: Peace and Security Council of the African Union The African Union has called for technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TFGBV) and threats linked to artificial intelligence (AI) to be integrated into Women, Peace and Security (WPS) National Action Plans and early warning systems, warning that digital attacks are increasingly used to intimidate, discredit and silence women in peace and political processes. The call was made at

By Sam Hunter and Seamus Hughes September 28, 2026 AI employees are raising concerns about an extinction-level event. But there’s a more immediate threat. Large language models. Artificial general intelligence. Sentience. The singularity. All terms that a few years ago were barely in the lexicon. Now that they’re becoming commonplace in discussions about artificial intelligence (AI), it's important to introduce one more.   Abliterated AI.   The word combines “ablate,” meaning

By Diana Novak Jones October 21, 2026 A woman walks by the Meta Lab in Los Angeles, California, U.S., May 20, 2026. REUTERS/Daniel Cole Purchase Licensing Rights Oct 21 (Reuters) - A judge in New Mexico ordered Meta Platforms (META.O), opens new tab on Wednesday to pay the state $25 billion after a jury found the ​company had misled consumers about the privacy of their data, hitting the company with one of the largest financial penalties in US history. The ruling came in ‌a c

By Alex Carson The guidance was submitted as a public comment this month in response to a call for input from Meta's Oversight Board regarding the use of large language models in content moderation Credit: Cheng Xin/Getty Images CyberWell released new guidance for social media companies earlier this month on improving artificial intelligence content moderation to better target antisemitism, while protecting free expression. The guidance was submitted as a public comment this

By: Mariam Javid October 15, 2026 Powered by artificial intelligence, Israel’s strategy of keeping soldiers “out of harm’s way” while they kill Palestinians relies on quadcopter drones and various AI systems to identify and target people. Photo Credit: AFP ISLAMABAD – On February 29, 2024, Israeli forces fired at civilians as they gathered around an aid convoy. At least 115 people were killed in what has since become known as the ‘Flour Massacre’. Survivors recalled the invol

By George Chidi October 27, 2026 Social media companies including Meta have pulled back on efforts to protect voters from election-meddling lies. Credit: Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University Social media feeds are awash with an unprecedented flood of AI-driven disinformation ahead of November’s US midterm elections, according to experts, who warn many posts are likely “slipping through the cracks”. As tens of millions of Americans prepare to cast their vote, social media c

By Edith M. Lederer October 20, 2026 The United Nations is launching a new initiative on the military uses of artificial intelligence, aimed at addressing some dire concerns about the threat the rapidly developing technology could pose to humanity. Credit: Staff Sgt. Renee Seruntine/US Army National Guard The United Nations is launching a new initiative on the military uses of artificial intelligence, aimed at addressing some dire concerns about the threat the rapidly develop

By Deidre McPhillips October 10, 2026 Visitors use mobile phones as they walk past an advertisement for a virtual reality headset, displayed at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, on February 17. (Arun Sankar/AFP/Getty Images) More than a dozen “interconnected catastrophic threats” pose significant risk to global health and wellbeing through the remainder of the 21st century, researchers say – including the potential for extinction. But targeted action from world leaders can h

By Usaid Siddiqui October 17, 2026 The deadly Tumbler Ridge shooting in Canada raises questions about when AI companies should report threats of violence to police, and the potential risks to an individual’s privacy. Credit: Asanka Ratnayake/Getty Images For months before carrying out Canada’s deadliest school shooting in almost four decades, Jesse Van Rootselaar was consulting an unlikely adviser on how to perpetrate mass murder. “In a hallway, indoors, or a crowded classroo