Artificial intelligence and the challenge for global governance

Artificial intelligence (AI) is advancing rapidly, and is creating new and significant challenges for governance. New mechanisms must be developed and existing approaches strengthened to support international cooperation on AI. States will need sufficient capacity to be meaningful actors in shaping this emerging technology, and will need expertise and resources to understand and adapt to its consequences.

This collection of essays examines innovative approaches to AI regulation and governance. It presents and evaluates proposals and mechanisms for ensuring responsible AI, from EU-style regulations to open-source governance, from treaties to CERN-like research facilities and publicly owned corporations. Drawing on perspectives from around the world, the collection underscores the need to protect openness, ensure inclusivity and fairness in AI, and establish clear ethical frameworks and lines of cooperation between states and technology companies.

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction – the need to future-proof AI governance
2. A ‘CERN for AI’ – what might an international AI research organization address?
3. Regulating AI and digital technologies – what the new Council of Europe convention can contribute
4. Community-based AI
5. Open source and the democratization of AI
6. Resisting colonialism – why AI systems must embed the values of the historically oppressed
7. The UK needs a ‘British AI Corporation’, modelled on the BBC
8. An ethics framework for the AI-generated future
9. Common goals and cooperation – towards multi-stakeholderism in AI