Hans Wijayasuriya on Establish a UN-led body to oversee comp…

Hans Wijayasuriya

Chief Advisor to the President of Sri Lanka on Digital Economy and Special Envoy to the UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance.

Smaller and Developing nations must not be constrained to being just consumers of AI, but be empowered as contributors to the knowledge, language, and cultural perspectives upon which future AI systems are built.

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Hans Wijayasuriya, statement at the UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance, July 6, 2026.

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Establish a UN-led body to oversee compute-intensive AI

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AI Verified The UN-governance speech calls for international cooperation and inclusive national participation in AI development. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2mo ago

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AI Verified His call for international cooperation and developing-nation participation supports UN-led AI oversight. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2mo ago

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AI Verified Sri Lanka’s UN Mission transcript dated July 6, 2026 contains this exact sentence in Hans Wijayasuriya’s speech. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2mo ago

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AI will create a permanent underclass

If left solely to market forces, AI will naturally evolve around the world's largest languages, leaving many communities on the margins of the AI economy.

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