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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].
“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.
These words belong to Eman Muqbel, site management coordinator for the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) in Gaza. She and her family are among hundreds of thousands of Palestinians living under bombardment in Gaza City and being forced to flee their homes.
(UN News)* — Humanitarian aid in Gaza must be protected, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Friday [], following the theft of therapeutic food critical for saving thousands of young lives from malnutrition as famine spreads.
Nairobi, 23 September 2025 – Two years of escalating conflict have caused unprecedented levels of environmental damage in the Gaza Strip, damaging its soils, freshwater supplies and coastline, finds a new report from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
The Environmental Impact of the Conflict in the Gaza Strip, released on 23 September 2025, says the recovery from some of that damage could take decades. The assessment comes a month after a panel of independent experts determined that parts of the Gaza are in a state of famine.
(UN News)* — Foreign Ministers from across the Americas met on the margins of the UN General Assembly on Tuesday [] to rally for greater support for Haiti.
The Caribbean country remains in the grip of a deepening multidimensional crisis affecting the political, security, human rights and humanitarian spheres, with implications for the region.
Armed gangs control large swathes of the territory, more than six million people are in urgent need of assistance, and 1.4 million have fled their homes, mainly women and children.
Killings and abductions are rampant, while cases of sexual and gender-based violence have significantly increased.
– US President Trump’s snide barbs against his appointee, US Federal Reserve Bank Chairman Jerome Powell, have revived support for central bank independence – long abused by powerful finance interests against growth and equity.
Jomo Kwame Sundaram
Independent central banks are supposed to improve the quality, equity, and growth impact of monetary policy.
Instead, they have primarily served powerful financial interests, with contractionary and regressive effects leading to slower, unequal growth.
Independent of whom?
Central banks were established to determine monetary policy to shape financial conditions to achieve national economic objectives.
In recent decades, the new conventional policy wisdom has been that independent central banks should set monetary policy. Thus, they have been influenced by powerful financial interests, typically foreign, in smaller, open developing countries.
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