{"id":184999,"date":"2026-02-06T04:26:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T09:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/06\/israeli-ai-researcher-selected-for-new-un-panel-shaping-global-artificial-intelligence-policy\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T04:55:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T09:55:13","slug":"israeli-ai-researcher-selected-for-new-un-panel-shaping-global-artificial-intelligence-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/06\/israeli-ai-researcher-selected-for-new-un-panel-shaping-global-artificial-intelligence-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli AI Researcher Selected for New UN Panel Shaping Global Artificial Intelligence Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themedialine.org\/headlines\/israeli-ai-researcher-selected-for-new-un-panel-shaping-global-artificial-intelligence-policy\/\">Israeli AI Researcher Selected for New UN Panel Shaping Global Artificial Intelligence Policy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themedialine.org\/headlines\/israeli-ai-researcher-selected-for-new-un-panel-shaping-global-artificial-intelligence-policy\/\">https:\/\/themedialine.org\/headlines\/israeli-ai-researcher-selected-for-new-un-panel-shaping-global-artificial-intelligence-policy\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-06 04:26:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"themedialine.org\">themedialine.org<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ben-Gurion University&#8217;s Prof. Lior Rokach is set to join the UN\u2019s Independent International Scientific Panel on AI, becoming Israel\u2019s only representative.<\/li>\n<li>Prof. Rokach was selected from over 2,600 candidates from 140 countries to join the 40-member panel.<\/li>\n<li>The panel focuses on assessing the societal impacts of artificial intelligence and providing guidance to international policymakers.<\/li>\n<li>The panel aims to serve as an early warning system for non-military AI developments and risks.<\/li>\n<li>Prof. Rokach will work alongside prominent scientists such as Prof. Yoshua Bengio and Prof. Maria Ressa.<\/li>\n<li>The Stein Faculty of Computer and Information Science, which Rokach is part of, emphasizes innovation in cybersecurity, AI, and computer science through specialized research institutes.<\/li>\n<li>The university anticipates Rokach will be available for interviews upon UN approval of the panel membership.<\/li>\n<li>Ben-Gurion University, based in Beersheba, is known for its contributions to various innovation fields and upholds David Ben-Gurion\u2019s vision of the Negev serving as a hub for technological solutions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli AI Researcher Selected for New UN Panel Shaping Global Artificial Intelligence Policy https:\/\/themedialine.org\/headlines\/israeli-ai-researcher-selected-for-new-un-panel-shaping-global-artificial-intelligence-policy\/ Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":185000,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/themedialine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/LRPhoto2018.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-184999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184999"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185001,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184999\/revisions\/185001"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}