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Rappler CEO Maria Ressa speaks to the media, August 9, 2024.Maria Tan, ABS-CBN News/File

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<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:960px;display:block" width="960"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/177025154143920240809-ressa-maria-rappler-sec-MT-5.jpg" style="width:960px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" width="960"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">Rappler CEO Maria Ressa speaks to the media, August 9, 2024.Maria Tan, ABS-CBN News/File</span></span></span></div><p>Journalist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa of the Philippines, and Canadian artificial intelligence pioneer Yoshua Bengio are among 40 experts selected to serve on a United Nations AI panel, officials announced Wednesday.</p><p>Also named among the independent experts who will serve for three years on the panel are Joelle Barral, a French national who is senior director for research and engineering at Google&#x27;s DeepMind.</p><p>Ethiopian national Girmaw Abebe Tadesse -- a principal research scientist at the Microsoft lab dedicated to the use of AI in sustainability, humanitarian work and health -- has also been named to the group.</p><p>&quot;It will be the first global, fully independent scientific body dedicated to helping close the AI knowledge gap and assess the real impacts of AI across economies and societies,&quot; UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told a press conference.</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/technology/2026/1/29/online-platforms-offer-filtering-to-fight-ai-slop-1408">Online platforms offer filtering to fight AI slop</a></div><p>He unveiled the list of names to be submitted for final consideration by the UN General Assembly.</p><p>The members&#x27; expertise spans a range of fields, from machine learning to data governance and cybersecurity, as well as public health, child development, and human rights.</p><p>The panel, which aims to be to AI what the UN&#x27;s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is to global warming, was established by the General Assembly in August 2025.</p><p>&quot;All members will serve in their personal capacity independent of any government, company, or institution,&quot; the secretary-general said.</p><p>The panel&#x27;s first report is expected to be published in time for the UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance in July.</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/technology/2026/2/3/musk-merges-xai-into-spacex-in-bid-to-build-space-data-centers-0835">Musk merges xAI into SpaceX in bid to build space data centers</a><br/><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/technology/2026/2/3/naga-depdev-sign-deal-for-ai-city-planner-1607">Naga, DEPDev sign deal for AI City Planner</a><br/><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/technology/2026/2/3/openclaw-s-ai-agent-does-everything-even-social-media-1108">OpenClaw&#x27;s AI agent does everything, even social media</a></div>

<p>Journalist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa of the Philippines, and Canadian artificial intelligence pioneer Yoshua Bengio are among 40 experts selected to serve on a United Nations AI panel, officials announced Wednesday.</p>

Journalist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa of the Philippines, and Canadian artificial intelligence pioneer Yoshua Bengio are among 40 experts selected to serve on a United Nations AI panel, officials announced Wednesday.

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Maria Ressa, Canadian tech pioneer named to UN's AI panel

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Published February 05, 2026 08:34 AM PHT

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