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The Annual AI Governance Report 2025: Steering the Future of AI Context Chapter 1: Global

Figure 5: Jennifer Bachus, then-Acting Head of Bureau, Bureau of Cyberspace and
Digital Policy, USA; Chuen Hong Lew, Chief Executive Officer, Infocomm Media
Development Authority (IMDA)
Arguably the heart of the matter in most Governance discussions is: How can governments
design AI governance in a way that manages risks effectively without stifling innovation?

Quotes:

• “This is not about dismantling all the regulation, but this is about really putting a
much stronger focus on innovation.” (Anne Bouverot, Special Envoy of France for
AI)
• “We became a fintech hub not because we had big financial institutions, but
because we made it easy for startups to test their products the ideas in a safe
and supervised environment in so-called Regulatory sandboxes.” (Jūratė Šovienė,
Chair of the Council, The Communications Regulatory Authority of the Republic
of Lithuania)

Dive deeper in the Whitepaper “Themes and Trends in AI Governance”:

• Theme 1: The Year of AI Agents
o 1.1 Rapid Capability Improvements

• 2.3 Economic Growth and Productivity Gains
o New Value Streams in Education
o New Value Streams in Science
o New Value Streams in Transportation
o New Value Streams in Agriculture

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