{"id":210889,"date":"2026-02-07T02:43:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T07:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/07\/ben-gurion-university-professor-recommended-for-un-global-panel-on-artificial-intelli\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T04:10:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T09:10:36","slug":"ben-gurion-university-professor-recommended-for-un-global-panel-on-artificial-intelli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/07\/ben-gurion-university-professor-recommended-for-un-global-panel-on-artificial-intelli\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben-Gurion University professor recommended for UN global panel on artificial intelli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ynetnews.com\/article\/ska7swnvzl\">Ben-Gurion University professor recommended for UN global panel on artificial intelli<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ynetnews.com\/article\/ska7swnvzl\">https:\/\/www.ynetnews.com\/article\/ska7swnvzl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-07 02:43:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.ynetnews.com\">www.ynetnews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span data-offset-key=\"ch5s9-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">Ben-Gurion University<\/span><\/span><span data-offset-key=\"ch5s9-1-0\"><span data-text=\"true\"> of the Negev congratulates Prof. Lior Rokach of the Stein Faculty of Computer and Information Science. He has been recommended by the United Nations Secretary-General <\/span><\/span><span data-offset-key=\"ch5s9-2-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">Ant\u00f3nio Guterres<\/span><\/span><span data-offset-key=\"ch5s9-3-0\"><span data-text=\"true\"> for appointment to the newly established Independent International Scientific Panel on <\/span><\/span><span data-offset-key=\"ch5s9-4-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">Artificial Intelligence<\/span><\/span><span data-offset-key=\"ch5s9-5-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">. This global panel is the first scientific body dedicated exclusively to AI, convening leading experts to examine how artificial intelligence is shaping societies around the world.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-offset-key=\"4qv77-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">The selection process was highly competitive, with over 2,600 candidates from 140 countries. Only 40 of those were chosen for the final panel, with Prof. Rokach the sole Israeli representative.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-offset-key=\"d1ppi-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">Prof. Daniel Chamovitz, President of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, &#8220;Prof. Lior Rokach\u2019s appointment to the UN\u2019s Independent International AI Panel reflects his scientific leadership as one of the most cited researchers in his field, and the excellence of the University\u2019s Stein Faculty of Computer and Information Science.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-offset-key=\"821do-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">The Stein Faculty of Computer and Information Science, established this year, focuses on research and teaching in cybersecurity, artificial intelligence (AI), and computer science. Uniquely, the Faculty is not divided into departments but is comprised of five research institutes: the Institute for the Foundations of Artificial Intelligence, the Institute for Applied AI Research, the Institute for Theory of Computer Science, the Institute for Interdisciplinary Computational Science, and the Institute for Software, Systems, and Security.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-offset-key=\"4anun-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">Prof. Rokach joins an exceptional group of internationally renowned figures, including Prof. Yoshua Bengio, one of the \u201cFathers of Deep Learning\u201d and Turing Award laureate, and Prof. Maria Ressa, Nobel Peace Prize winner recognized for her work combating disinformation and online manipulation fueled by AI.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-offset-key=\"b3igi-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">The panel\u2019s mission is to provide evidence-based scientific assessments regarding the opportunities, risks, and&#8230;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ynetnews.com\/article\/ska7swnvzl\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben-Gurion University professor recommended for UN global panel on artificial intelli https:\/\/www.ynetnews.com\/article\/ska7swnvzl Publish Date: 2026-02-07&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":210890,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ynet-pic1.yit.co.il\/picserver6\/crop_images\/2026\/02\/07\/Bk11ijDVD11l\/Bk11ijDVD11l_0_0_3000_2002_0_large.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[57],"class_list":["post-210889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210889"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210891,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210889\/revisions\/210891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}