Nearly 200 Nations Step Through the Door Towards AI Governance

Artificial intelligence (AI) is dominating the news of late, and stakeholders around the world weighed in this week. The United Nations (UN) convened an Independent International Scientific Panel on AI to assess how AI is transforming lives globally. The panel's recently released Preliminary Report of the Independent International Scientific Panel on AI details the UN's evidence-based assessment of the opportunities, risks, and impacts of AI, and was followed by the first-ever Global Dialogue on AI Governance, held by the UN. This flurry of discourse, moderated and encouraged by the UN, signals a growing need for global coordination on AI governance and for enhanced understanding of the dynamics at play within the existing AI ecosystem. Here's what we've been watching as the UN's AI directives unfolded this past week.