PORTLAND, USA, Sep 23 2025 (IPS)** ––Despite anxieties, concerns, and warnings, androids or humanoid robots that rely on generative artificial intelligence (GAI) and advanced robotics are increasingly being integrated into the modern lives of human populations.
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As androids edge closer to reshaping how we work, interact, and manage conflict and resources, the absence of clear regulations leaves human rights, jobs, and social bonds unprotected. Credit: Shutterstock
This integration raises serious challenges regarding humanity’s future in an era where androids are emerging rapidly.
Some have expressed concerns that GAI and robots are embedding and intensifying existing societal biases, stereotypes, misogyny, and discrimination in the development of these new technologies.
Soon, androids are expected to change the nature of work, social interactions, conflict resolution, and resource management.
(UN News)* —Artificial intelligence holds vast potential but poses grave risks if left unregulated, UN Secretary-General António Guterres told the Security Council on Wednesday [24 September 2025].
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“AI is no longer a distant horizon – it is here, , transforming daily life, the information space, and the global economy at breathtaking speed,” Mr. Guterres said at the Council’s high-level debate on the technology’s security implications for transforming warfare
“The question is not whether AI will influence international peace and security, but how we will shape that influence.”
(UN News)* — The explosive growth of AI tools around the world has yet to be matched by effective, internationally agreed rules on how this powerful technology is governed.
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A high-profile event at UN Headquarters on Thursday [] is designed to bring effective global AI governance a step closer to reality.
Investment, optimism and anxiety: these are three of the big drivers of interest in artificial intelligence and its implications.
Because the challenges and opportunities are global, the responses also need to be far more comprehensive than the fragmented and siloed solutions that have been enacted thus far: