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Slavery: “We must turn memory into progress & remembrance into responsibility” – UN Chief

Source: United Nations (video statements)

Remarks by António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, at the 75th plenary meeting of the 80th session of the General Assembly on the International Day of Remembrance of Victims of Slavery and Transatlantic Slave Trade.

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Secretary-General António Guterres for his part said “today is more than a time of remembrance. It’s a moment to confront the lasting legacies of inequality and racism. We will never forget the victims of slavery, and you must never forget the malevolent system that sustained it for so long.”

Guterres said, “this was not simply forced labour. It was a machinery of mass exploitation and deliberate dehumanisation of men, women and children.”

He said, “the transatlantic slave trade was a crime against humanity that struck at the core of personhood, broke up families and devastated communities.”

The Secretary-General welcomed “steps some countries are taking to apologise for their role in the evil of slavery, and to join an honest dialogue about its lasting consequences, but far bolder actions and many more states are needed, and this includes commitments to respect African countries ownership of their own natural resources, and steps to ensure their equal participation and influence in the global financial architecture and the UN Security Council.”

Full remarks: https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/sg/statements/2026-03-25/secretary-generals-remarks-the-international-day-of-remembrance-of-the-victims-of-slavery-and-the-transatlantic-slave-trade

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AI can lie, hack and blackmail: Yoshua Bengio on how to tame the “baby tiger” of tech

Source: World Economic Forum (video statements)

If AIs can think for themselves, what is to stop them doing bad – perhaps really bad – things?
Yoshua Bengio, one of a handful of people considered a "godfather of AI", says AIs are already displaying bad behaviours, including hacking computers and blackmailing humans.
He tells Radio Davos about his work aimed at taming the "cute baby tiger" that is likely to grow up to be a man-eating wild animal if we do nothing now.
Links:
LawZero: https://lawzero.org/en/publication/scientist-ai-safe-design-not-desiring
Ideas on the Move: Yoshua Bengio: https://www.weforum.org/videos/davos_yoshua_bengio/
Annual Meeting 2026 session "Next Phase of Intelligence": https://www.weforum.org/meetings/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2026/sessions/next-phase-of-intelligence/
Forum Centre for AI Excellence: https://centres.weforum.org/centre-for-ai-excellence/home
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AI may spark a new era of progress, but that depends on more than just the tech: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/carl-benedikt-frey-ai-work-jobs-economics/
The day after AGI: Two ‘rock stars’ of AI on what it will mean for humanity: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/ai-agi-dario-amodei-demis-hassabis/
What is physical AI?: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/physical-ai-smart-robotics/
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