Leonardo Cervera Navas on Democratic middle powers should jointly…

Leonardo Cervera Navas

Director General of the European Data Protection Supervisor, speaking at the UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance in July 2026.

The unprecedented concentration of wealth and economic power that we see in the development of AI needs to be balanced with a similar concentration of state power and moral purpose and responsibility, because technology must serve mankind and not the other way around.

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Leonardo Cervera Navas, remarks at “Thematic discussion 3: Safe, secure and trustworthy AI — Global Dialogue on Artificial Intelligence Governance — Day 2,” UN Transcripts, July 7, 2026.

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Democratic middle powers should jointly develop frontier AI and share its benefits globally

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AI Verified Cervera Navas argues AI's concentrated power requires public moral purpose and governance, supporting collective democratic action. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 2mo ago

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AI Verified Cervera Navas supports democratically accountable governance to counter AI power concentration. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 2mo ago

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AI Verified UN transcript, line 242, records Cervera Navas's statement verbatim. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 2mo ago

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We have to be careful with this technology, and we always have to have this technology under supervision. This is exactly what we have done in the EU with our AI Act. We have established principle-based rules where we say that the higher the risk, th...

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