Who sits on the UN's Independent International Scientific Panel on AI?
It's 40 experts co-chaired by Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa, drawn from every UN region and selected from more than 2,600 candidates across 140 countries. Members include researchers from ETH Zurich, Google DeepMind, IIT Madras, Cambridge, and Shanghai's AI Research Institute.
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