Hans Wijayasuriya on The economic gains from frontier AI sho…

Hans Wijayasuriya

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

Collective action must ensure that Smaller and lower income nations have access to a minimum level of Sovereign AI, so that they can localise AI, without being forced to compromise Privacy, Policy Autonomy or national resilience. Our goal must go beyond simply making information available. It should be to ensure that every person can understand and benefit from information, regardless of language, abilities, or the opportunities into which they were born.

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Hans Wijayasuriya, remarks at the World Summit on the Information Society Forum, July 8, 2026; published by the Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka to the UN, July 9, 2026.

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The economic gains from frontier AI should be shared with every person on Earth

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AI Verified Calling for universal access and benefit from AI, especially for lower-income nations, supports globally shared AI gains. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 2mo ago

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

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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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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