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UN turns to Google to make its global data ready for AI agents
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The United Nations on Thursday announced that it is working with Google to make its vast collection of global statistics easier for AI systems to access and use.
Key facts
- The test covered OpenAI’s GPT-4o and GPT-4o-mini, Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Haiku 4.5, and Google’s Gemini 2.5 Flash and Gemini 2.0 Flash, Azevedo told TechCrunch
- Visits from users clicking links in ChatGPT answers to the site rose 67% year-over-year between January 1 and September 14, Azevedo told TechCrunch
- The UN said 26 of its entities have committed to the Data Commons, with data from nearly 20 available at launch
- Google.org provided $2 million in capacity-building funding and technical support to establish the platform’s core infrastructure
Summary
Called the UN System Data Commons, the new system is built on Google’s open source Data Commons platform and lets people search for statistics from across UN agencies using natural-language queries. Users increasingly turn to AI tools for answers, but many systems still struggle to reliably surface authoritative data. The test covered OpenAI’s GPT-4o and GPT-4o-mini, Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Haiku 4.5, and Google’s Gemini 2.5 Flash and Gemini 2.0 Flash, Azevedo told TechCrunch. About three in five responses did not provide a usable number at all, often because the models hedged their answers, Azevedo said.