Summary
To foster a globally inclusive approach, the UN Secretary-General convened a multi-stakeholder High-level Advisory Body on AI for 12 months from 26 October 2023 to undertake analysis and advance recommendations for the international governance of AI.
The Advisory Body comprised 39 preeminent AI leaders from 33 countries from across all regions and multiple sectors, serving in their personal capacity.
- A call for Interdisciplinary Expertise
Selected from over 2,000 nominations, this diverse group combined cutting edge expertise across public policy, science, technology, anthropology, human rights, and other relevant fields. - A Multistakeholder, Networked Approach
The Body included experts from government, private sector and civil society, engaged and consulted widely with existing and emerging initiatives and international organizations, to bridge perspectives across stakeholder groups and networks. - An Agile, Dynamic Process
The Body worked at speed to deliver its interim report in under 2 months, engage over 2,000 AI experts stakeholders across all regions in 5 months, and produce its final report in under 3 months. Keeping pace with technical and institutional developments let the Advisory Body provide high-level expert and independent contributions to ongoing national, regional, and multilateral debate.
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Press conference by António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, on launching the Secretary-General’s Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence.
At the launch of his Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence, Secretary-General António Guterres said that AI technologies could “supercharge climate action and efforts to achieve the 17 Sustainable Development Goals by 2030,” but it must be “harnessed responsibly, and made accessible to all.”
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The Quest for Global AI Governance: the UN AI Advisory Body
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By: Stanford Cyber Policy Center
Join the Cyber Policy Center on April 2nd from Noon–1PM Pacific with speaker Marietje Schaake for The Quest for Global AI Governance: the UN AI Advisory Body. Schaake will speak about developments in AI governance around the world. As a Member and co-rapporteur of the UN AI Advisory Body, she will share highlights on the progress this body has made since last Fall, as well as the findings as shared in the Interim Report ‘Governing AI for Humanity’.
The session will be moderated by Nate Persily, co director of the Stanford Cyber Policy Center, and is part of the Spring Seminar Series, a series spanning April through June hosted at the Cyber Policy Center.
