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

Annexes

1 AI Governance Dialogue address: Steering the future of AI –
Doreen Bogdan-Martin

Your Excellency Mr. Alar Karis, President of Estonia, Excellencies, colleagues, and friends,

Transformation is a word we in the technology world hear often. But when it comes to artificial
intelligence, I believe we truly are in a transformative moment. The global AI race is well underway,
sparking fierce competition between companies, countries, and region; reshaping diplomacy,
economics, and labor markets; and exposing critical gaps in the capacity to develop, deploy
and benefit from AI. As this technology evolves amid fears it will overtake human ingenuity…
the challenge is not whether to govern AI, but how to ensure governance steers it in the right
direction. We know this is possible, because we’ve already caught a glimpse of it.

Last year, the Nobel Prize for Chemistry was awarded to the developers of AlphaFold, an AI
system that predicts the complex 3D structure of proteins. For decades, modeling a single
protein took several years. AlphaFold has now modelled virtually every protein known to
science: more than 200 million. And those scientists made their work freely available, helping
researchers worldwide accelerate drug discovery, transform medicine, and better understand
the building blocks of life itself.

Figure 20: Doreen Bogdan-Martin, Secretary-General, ITU
That’s the kind of AI future we want: one where AI opens new frontiers of scientific discovery
on Earth and in space.

Ladies and gentlemen, this is why we are here. Because this transformative AI moment demands
more than admiration or alarm. It demands dialogue and concerted action on inclusive, forward-
looking governance that drives innovation and builds public trust. Governance that minimizes
risks and leaves no one behind.

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