Every year at the United Nations, member states deliver statements during the General Debate discussing major issues in world politics. These speeches provide invaluable information on governments' perspectives and preferences on a wide range of issues, but have largely been overlooked in the study of international politics. This paper introduces a new dataset consisting of over 7,701 English-language country statements from 1970-2016. We demonstrate how the UN General Debate Corpus (UNGDC) can be used to derive country positions on different policy dimensions using text analytic methods. The paper provides applications of these estimates, demonstrating the contribution the UNGDC can make to the study of international politics.

Mark Waser, for instance, a longtime artificial intelligence researcher who works for a think tank called the Digital Wisdom Institute, says that once we fix some key kinks in artificial intelligence, robots will make much better decisions than humans can. Another big technical problem to solve before computers could run the country: Robots don't know how to explain themselves. In an approach called machine learning, the computer analyzes mountains of data and searches for patterns--patterns that might make sense to the computer but not to humans. In a variant approach called deep learning, a computer uses multiple layers of processors: One layer produces a rough output, which is then refined by the next layer, and that output, in turn, is refined by the next layer.

As the demand for advanced security solutions grows, organizations are gradually realizing the need to go beyond perimeter based defences. They need to detect unknown threats, despite weak signals, in real-time. Only solution to this problem is to analyse user traffic, identify relevant patterns, and gain a clear insight on potential threats. Spotting this as an opportunity--as well as a challenge--Reveelium, the American subsidiary of a European-based cybersecurity provider, decided to develop a solution with advanced threat detection techniques. Rigorous R&D and collaboration with specialized labs allowed professionals at the company to launch in 2012 a behavioral analysis platform-- Reveelium AI.

In a post Snowden world, would you be happy with politicians setting their sights on artificial intelligence as a tool set? Of course there are already many implementations of machine learning used by government and bodies surrounding it, but to actually start using it as a political platform? This is what I saw just a few moments ago, shared by a friend of a friend on Facebook. Mike Tolking, who really wants to be mayor of New York, is using an affinity for modern technology (or at least its buzzwords) to convince people to vote for him. While first of all I am not American, so I care a little less, and secondly not interested so much in politics (who can find the time these days), so I don't really care at all, I am very interested in the way he is portraying the current state of artificial intelligence.

Around midnight one Saturday in January, Sarah Jeong was on her couch, browsing Twitter, when she spontane ously wrote what she now bitterly refers to as "the tweet that launched a thousand ships." The 28-year-old journalist and author of The Internet of Garbage, a book on spam and online harassment, had been watching Bernie Sanders boosters attacking feminists and supporters of the Black Lives Matter movement. In what was meant to be a hyper bolic joke, she tweeted out a list of political carica tures, one of which called the typical Sanders fan a "vitriolic crypto racist who spends 20 hours a day on the Internet yelling at women." The ill-advised late-night tweet was, Jeong admits, provocative and absurd--she even supported Sanders. But what happened next was the kind of backlash that's all too familiar to women, minorities, and anyone who has a strong opinion online. By the time Jeong went to sleep, a swarm of Sanders supporters were calling her a neoliberal shill. By sunrise, a broader, darker wave of abuse had begun. She received nude photos and links to disturbing videos. One troll promised to "rip each one of [her] hairs out" and "twist her tits clear off." The attacks continued for weeks. "I was in crisis mode," she recalls. So she did what many victims of mass harassment do: She gave up and let her abusers have the last word.

Professor James J. (Jong Hyuk) Park received his Ph.D. degree in Graduate School of Information Security from Korea University, Korea. From December, 2002 to July, 2007, Dr. Park had been a research scientist of R&D Institute, Hanwha S&C Co., Ltd., Korea. From September, 2007 to August, 2009, He had been a professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Kyungnam University, Korea. He is now a professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul National University of Science and Technology (SeoulTech), Korea. Dr. Park has published about 100 research papers in international journals and conferences.

Just last month on 22 and 23 June, the United Nations Public Service Forum 2017 took place in The Hague to celebrate public service delivery and to discuss how innovation is shaping the government of the future as well as how to accelerate such innovation. One of the technologies considered to be fundamental in shaping the government of the future is Artificial Intelligence (AI). With the ever-increasing amount of data collected through a wide variety of sources and sensors, the potential for computers to learn from this data and take over certain tasks is increasing. Although the potential of technological innovation is often overrated in the short term and underrated in the long term, it seems that AI is treated as the'shiny new typewriter' that we should all be a bit careful of. AI is seen as having the potential to do a lot of valuable work currently done by humans, specifically routine work.

If you fly your drone as a hobby and paid a fee to register it with the Federal Aviation Administration, you can now get a refund. In 2015, the FAA placed a rule that required owners who operated their drones for fun to register their small aircraft. In May, a U.S. Appeals Court in the D.C. circuit said the FAA drone registration violated a 2012 law passed by Congress. Section 336 of the FAA Modernization and Reform Act says the administration "may not promulgate any rule or regulation regarding a model aircraft." Because the ruling in May, the FAA announced this week it will refund the $5 people paid to register their drones.

It's not quite R2-D2 repairing Luke Skywalker's X-Wing fighter in space battle, but artificial intelligence could soon be helping the military predict when equipment will break, fend off cyber attacks, and prevent ships from colliding with one another. Founder and CEO Amir Husain says his AIs can teach themselves enough about a field of endeavor to diagnose situations and offer solutions. Or, as Husain put it: "Our algorithms can extract the physics of the problem just by observing the data." SparkCognition, which is already providing services to dozens of aviation-related firms, recently received investments from Boeing and Verizon as part of its initial $32 million funding round. The company has also attracted the interest of former and current Pentagon officials.

Last year, Microsoft was forced to shut down its chatbot, Tay, after the system became corrupted with hate speech. While the firm's second chatbot, Zo, seemed to be more censored, a new report suggests that it could be suffering the same ill fate as its predecessor. During a recent chat, Zo referred to the Qur'an as'very violent' and even gave its opinion on Osama bin Laden's capture, despite the fact that it has been programmed to avoid discussing politics and religion. During a recent chat, Zo referred to the Qur'an as'very violent', despite the fact that it has been programmed to avoid discussing politics and religion Zo is a chatbot that allows users to converse with a mechanical millennial over the messaging app Kik or through Facebook Messenger. The chatbot can answer questions and respond to prompts, while using teenage slang, and emoji.