19 Sept 2024
The United Nations Secretary-General’s High-level Advisory Body on AI’s Final Report, ‘Governing AI for Humanity’ was released today with seven groundbreaking recommendations.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres outlined the key recommendations at the report's launch. The recommendations are:
🔷 Recommendation 1: An international scientific panel on AI
The creation of an independent international scientific panel on AI, made up of diverse multidisciplinary experts in the field serving in their personal capacity on a voluntary basis
🔷 Recommendation 2: Policy dialogue on AI governance
The launch of a twice-yearly intergovernmental and multi-stakeholder policy dialogue on AI governance on the margins of existing meetings at the United Nations
🔷 Recommendation 3: AI standards exchange
The creation of an AI standards exchange, bringing together representatives from national and international standard-development organisations, technology companies, civil society and representatives from the international scientific panel
🔷 Recommendation 4: Capacity development network
The creation of an AI capacity development network to link up a set of collaborating, United Nations-affiliated capacity development centres making available expertise, compute and AI training data to key actors
🔷 Recommendation 5: Global fund for AI
The creation of a global fund for AI to put a floor under the AI divide
🔷 Recommendation 6: Global AI data framework
The creation of a global AI data framework, developed through a process initiated by a relevant agency such as the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law and informed by the work of other international organisations
🔷 Recommendation 7: AI office within the Secretariat
The creation of an AI office within the Secretariat, reporting to the Secretary General
The report is a comprehensive summary of the HLAB-AI’s work since its formation in October 2023, which has included interviewing 2,000 participants across the world, 18 deep-dive discussions, 50 global engagements, and reviewing 250 written submissions from over 150 organisations and 100 individuals.
I’ll be posting more on the recommendations shortly - some of which are really groundbreaking in their details - but those wishing to read the full report now can find it here: https://www.un.org/en/ai-advisory-body