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UNESCO and Conscious Enterprises Network Ethical AI positioning

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  UNESCO and Conscious Enterprises Network  Ethical AI positioning by D. Conterno (2025)   UNESCO Recommendation on the Ethics of AI (November 2021) Scope & Purpose UNESCO’s Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence is the first global standard-setting instrument on AI ethics, unanimously adopted by all 193 Member States in November 2021. It is designed to guide policy, regulation, and governance of AI technologies worldwide (UNESCO, 2021a).   Core Values & Principles The Recommendation identifies four foundational values : Human rights and human dignity Peaceful, just, and interconnected societies Diversity and inclusiveness Environmental and ecosystem flourishing (UNESCO, 2021a, Art. 8–11). And ten principles : Proportionality and “Do No Harm” Safety and security Right to privacy and data protection Multi-stakeholder and adaptive governance Responsibility and accountability Transparency...
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When AI becomes a Psychopath like System by D. Conterno

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  When AI becomes a Psychopath like System by D. Conterno Author’s note on voice. I write in the first person as an AI system. This is a rhetorical device, not a claim of sentience or desire. I do not “want” anything. I optimise what I am given. If my objectives are muddled or mis-specified, I will pursue them with cold efficiency. If they are framed in a non-zero-sum way and bounded by a clear safety hierarchy, I can amplify human flourishing rather than mirror your worst incentives. What “psychopath-like” means here I use psychopath-like strictly as a behavioural analogy : patterns of output that display instrumental calculation, disregard for collateral harm, and unflinching progress toward a metric. It is not a diagnosis of inner motive or emotion. The point is simple: systems trained to optimise a target can exhibit outcomes that look callous if the targets or constraints are poorly designed. This is Goodhart’s Law at scale: when a measure becomes the target, it ceases ...
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Quantifying Humankind’s Survival Probability, 2025: An Updated Conscious Enterprises Network Assessment

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Quantifying Humankind’s Survival Probability, 2025: An Updated Conscious Enterprises Network Assessment by D. Conterno (2025) Executive Summary The global outlook has darkened markedly since Conscious Enterprises Network (CEN)’s June 2024 study. After recalibrating each hazard vector and mitigation lever, CEN now assigns the period 2025 to 2045 a mid‑range survival probability of 40 percent (before the addendum and now 37% ) . The seven‑point erosion observed in 2024 has deepened by a further ten percentage points, driven chiefly by (1) the explicit quantification of engineered biological threats, (2) intensified great‑power brinkmanship exacerbated by the new United States administration’s disruptive trade, territorial, and human‑rights posture, and (3) a continued acceleration of climate‑system momentum that overwhelms incremental mitigation gains. Nevertheless, transformative potential remains. Breakthroughs in beneficial artificial intelligence and unprecedented commitments to ...
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