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On 26 October 2023, the UN Secretary-General António Guterres launched a High-Level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence (HLAB on AI…

The international community increasingly seeks to understand the large-scale risks we face, and the role institutions...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is set to revolutionize our world. As noted by the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in his remarks to the…

The Executive Office of the Secretary-General (EOSG) of the United Nations is publishing a series of policy briefs to inform the Our Common…

Concerns about AI ethics — the harms AI causes due to imperfect development and training — are sometimes pegged against concerns about AI…

The need to act yet remain agile  Artificial intelligence (AI) is on everyone’s mind – most sectors will be transformed and policymakers…

Throughout 2022 and early 2023, the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction underwent a period of review. During this time…

The last few years have witnessed exciting developments in the field of biotechnology, driven in part by the machine learning revolution…

The last few years have witnessed striking progress in artificial intelligence, driven by the machine learning revolution. However, as…

As part of the UN’s Our Common Agenda, an intergovernmental process on digital governance has been put in place to produce the ‘Global…

Why future proofing? In the words of António Guterres, Secretary General of the United Nations, “many of today’s multilateral frameworks are…

The Executive Office of the Secretary-General (EOSG) of the United Nations is publishing a series of policy briefs to inform the Our Common…

The Executive Office of the Secretary-General (EOSG) of the United Nations is publishing a series of policy briefs to inform the Our Common…

On 10th March 2022, UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, stated that: “(…) there is renewed pressure to consider whether global…

Future generations are fundamentally disempowered: they will inherit the planet and society we leave for them, yet they have no say in how…

What is it like to be a policymaker during the COVID-19 pandemic?  What might it be like during the next pandemic or another global crisis…

Strengthening science-policy capacity to mitigate Global Catastrophic Risks (GCRs) is difficult. As GCRs have not happened in the recent…

Future generations are front and center of many foundational international governance texts. Yet, consideration of their interests regularly falls into oblivion...

As the world temporarily ground to a halt in 2020, it became clear that the world is not prepared for shocks worse than COVID-19. To prepare, we need policy change...

At SI, we support international policy actors in dealing with uncertainty, complexity, time-pressure and global catastrophic risks. Below is a compilation of fields and resources...