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The Annual AI Governance Report 2025: Steering the Future of AI

Figure 9: (from left) Robert Trager, Co-Director, Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative,
University of Oxford; Boulbaba Ben Amor, Director for AI for Good at Inception, a G42
company; Anja Kaspersen, Director for Global Markets Development, Frontier Issues
and Critical Technologies, IEEE; Rachel Adams, Director, African Observatory on
Responsible AI; Roman V� Yampolskiy, Professor, Department of Computer Science
and Engineering, University of Louisville; Chris Painter, Policy Director, METR

Quotes:
• “Trust ... is not a property of machines - it is how institutions and societies navigate
uncertainty.” (Anja Kaspersen, Director for Global Markets Development, Frontier
Issues and Critical Technologies, IEEE)
• “...ethics become operational by translating values like fairness or accountability
into explicit, verifiable properties”. (Anja Kaspersen, Director for Global Markets
Development, Frontier Issues and Critical Technologies, IEEE)

1.7 Pacing Problems

A central concern throughout the discussions was the speed of AI development relative to the
speed of governance. Technical progress is measured in months; policy progress, in years.
Professor Yoshua Bengio shared his personal shift in perspective in January 2023 when he
realized that AI progress has far exceeded his expectations. He now believes that it could be
possible to achieve Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), human-level AI across many cognitive
capabilities in a few years away. Furthermore, AI systems may eventually become superior to
humans across the board, not just comparable.

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