Navigating a World of Exploding Innovation to Align Technology to Serve People and the Planet
UN Entity:
UNIN
SDGs:
All
Innovation Area:
Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
Digital Transformation
Drones & Satellite Imagery
Chatbots
When future generations look back at the technology we're building today, what will they see? Will they see products that helped us find meaning and balance, that healed our communities and democracies, and helped us find shared understanding? Or will they see clever hacks for maximising engagement, algorithms that drove outrage, and a world where no one could tell fact from fiction...
Today we face massive global challenges - from worsening mental health to growing inequity, rising authoritarianism and the climate crisis. One way or another, the technology we build will shape our collective capacity to solve these problems.
The UN Innovation Network in collaboration with the Center For Humane Technology is hosting an introduction to Foundations of Humane Technology (), an online course for people designing, developing and distributing 21st century technology.