PAI, the UN, and Global AI Governance: Aligning Policies for People and Society

Late September in New York City brings fall weather, apple cider doughnuts, and a legion of global leaders for the UN General Assembly and New York Climate Week. This year also brought representatives from the diverse AI ecosystem as Partnership on AI hosted its AI Policy Forum and the UN hosted the Summit of the Future. Across these events, a common theme emerged: Now is a critical time to align on AI governance for the benefit of humanity.

In the year since the UK AI Safety Summit and the Bletchley Declaration in which 28 countries and the European Union committed to global cooperation on AI safety, we have seen a flurry of AI policy activity. Around the globe, AI Safety Institutes have been established, multilateral bodies like the OECD and G7 have developed AI governance frameworks, and the EU AI Act has entered into force.

Partnership on AI has collaborated closely with several policy bodies at the international and national levels to share expertise, including for managing risk from foundation models and synthetic media, based on guidance co-created with the multistakeholder PAI Partner community. 

The question that now faces the AI ecosystem–from the UN to the companies developing AI to the research community–is: How do these AI governance efforts align with one another? And will they translate to safe, responsible AI that benefits people and society?

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