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Week Ahead: UN Global Digital Compact Open Consultations, deadline to submit recommendations is 8 March. Scroll all the way down. AI books published this week.

The UN Brief reports on the latest policies, initiatives, and debates at the heart of the global digital economy. Copyright: THE UN BRIEF, Maya Plentz

This is a packed edition on tech, AI policy, and regulatory frameworks.

You will also find my interview with Swiss Ambassador Jean-Pierre Reymond and a nice great round-up of tech news published around the world. Scroll down.

Will Be Published This Coming Week

Books on AI

Guardrails: Guiding Human Decisions in the Age of AI, by Urs Gasser and Viktor Mayer-Schönberger

“Whether we change jobs, buy a house, or quit smoking, thousands of decisions large and small shape our daily lives. Decisions drive our economies, seal the fate of democracies, create war or peace, and affect the well-being of our planet. Guardrails challenges the notion that technology should step in where our own decision making fails, laying out a surprisingly human-centered set of principles that can create new spaces for better decisions and a more equitable and prosperous…