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

Chapter 4: A vision for 2026

4.1 The UN’s “Global Dialogue on Artificial Intelligence Governance”

In August 2025, the United Nations General Assembly approved the Resolution "Terms of for 2026 Chapter 4: A vision
reference and modalities for the establishment and functioning of the Independent International
Scientific Panel on Artificial Intelligence and the Global Dialogue on Artificial Intelligence
Governance." This resolution establishes two new mechanisms to strengthen international
cooperation and governance of AI. It represents a significant step forward in the UN's efforts to
ensure the safe, secure, and trustworthy development of AI for sustainable development and
to bridge the digital divide.

Clause 6 of the Resolution says:

“6. Also decides to organize a high-level multi-stakeholder informal meeting to launch
the Dialogue in the margins of the high-level week of the eightieth session of the General
Assembly, in 2025, chaired by the President of the General Assembly, and further decides
that the Global Dialogue on Artificial Intelligence Governance will initially be held back-to-
back in the margins of the International Telecommunication Union Artificial Intelligence for
Good Global Summit in Geneva, in 2026, and of the multi-stakeholder forum on science,
technology and innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals in New York, in 2027;”

Figure 19: Anne Bouverot, Special Envoy of France for AI; LJ Rich, Moderator of the
AI for Good Global Summit; H� E� Engineer Majed Sultan Al Mesmar, Director General
of UAE’s Telecommunications and Digital Government Regulatory Authority (TDRA);
Tomas Lamanauskas, Deputy Secretary-General, ITU

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