How can we articulate Global AI Governance with Human Rights and Multistakeholder Engagement?
Data Privacy Brasil
Session 424
The global governance of Artificial Intelligence has been contested by multiple actors and institutional arenas. Processes such as AI Summits, the Independent Scientific Panel, and the Global Dialogue have emerged as spaces of significant attention, yet they are still seeking the most effective ways to operationalize governance in practice. However, digital harms, inclusion and human rights have featured less in the global governance spaces. This panel aims to serve as a platform for articulation among these processes, highlighting key issues and challenges of past AI Summits to ensure that the UN/GDC/WSIS processes can deliver meaningful progress in terms of global governance. Consistent with the WSIS+20 Outcome Document, AI governance should be guided by multistakeholder cooperation, international solidarity, capacity-building, and meaningful participation of developing countries in shaping the digital future.
The discussion among panelists is expected to address concepts such as “AI Safety” and the measures needed to mitigate and reduce harms already caused by AI systems; the importance of applying guidelines that enhance meaningful multistakeholder participation, in line with the NetMundial+10 document; and the role of developing countries in shaping AI governance around a human rights agenda that is responsive to local realities.
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C1. The role of governments and all stakeholders in the promotion of ICTs for development
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C2. Information and communication infrastructure
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C4. Capacity building
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C6. Enabling environment
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C10. Ethical dimensions of the Information Society
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C11. International and regional cooperation
C1: AI governance should strengthen multistakeholder cooperation, ensuring that governments, the private sector, technical communities, academia, and civil society participate meaningfully in the development, deployment, and oversight of AI systems.
C2: Effective AI governance should support equitable access to digital infrastructure, including connectivity, computing resources, and fair data ecosystems, enabling all countries to participate in and benefit from AI innovation, while also being attentive to the environment.
C4: AI governance must promote digital and AI literacy, technical skills development, and institutional capacities, particularly in developing countries, to foster meaningful participation in the AI ecosystem and informed policymaking.
C6: AI governance should establish the fundamental basis for transparent, predictable, and rights-respecting policy and regulatory frameworks that foster innovation while ensuring accountability, public trust, and sustainable development.
C10: AI governance should uphold human rights, fairness, transparency, accountability, privacy, and non-discrimination, ensuring that AI systems serve the public interest and respect human dignity.
C11: AI governance requires strengthened international cooperation, knowledge-sharing, and South-South, North-South, and triangular partnerships to address global challenges, reduce digital divides, and support inclusive participation in shaping the future of AI.
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Goal 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
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Goal 8: Promote inclusive and sustainable economic growth, employment and decent work for all
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Goal 10: Reduce inequality within and among countries
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Goal 16: Promote just, peaceful and inclusive societies
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Goal 17: Revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development
SDG 4: AI governance must promote digital literacy, AI literacy, and skills development, expanding educational opportunities and preparing individuals for the transformations brought by the digital economy and AI-driven societies.
SDG 8: AI governance should help ensure that automation and technological transformation contribute to decent work, labor protections, workforce reskilling, and inclusive economic growth.
SDG 10: Inclusive AI governance can help reduce inequalities within and among countries by promoting equitable access to AI capabilities, resources, and benefits, while addressing algorithmic discrimination and exclusion.
SDG 16: AI governance contributes to transparency, accountability, human rights protection, privacy, access to information, and the strengthening of trustworthy and effective institutions.
SDG 17: The global nature of AI requires international cooperation, knowledge-sharing, technology transfer, financing, and capacity-building, particularly to support developing countries in participating meaningfully in the AI ecosystem.
- Objective 2: Expand inclusion in and benefits from the digital economy for all
- Objective 3: Foster an inclusive, open, safe and secure digital space that respects, protects and promotes human rights
- Objective 4: Advance responsible, equitable and interoperable data governance approaches
- Objective 5: Enhance international governance of artificial intelligence for the benefit of humanity