Comment by Margrethe Vestager

These technologies – with their extraordinary potential benefits and equally extraordinary risks – cannot be governed by any single country, no matter how powerful it is. Effective governance requires exactly what we are missing: legitimate, effective global cooperation. We can build governance frameworks for AI from the ground up, and what we build can properly reflect today's multipolar reality, rather than yesterday's Western dominance. [...] Rather than creating bureaucracy, [we need] frameworks similar to aviation safety or pandemic surveillance systems — technical cooperation grounded in shared self-interest, with mechanisms for rapid information sharing and coordinated responses. Unverified source (2026)