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AI value alignment must be subject to public deliberation, not decided by developers alone

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Democratic legitimacy

Proponents argue that AI is making choices with moral, social, and political consequences, so its direction cannot be set by technologists, companies, or infrastructure owners behind closed doors. They say the bounds, defaults, and governing principles for powerful systems should be shaped through democratic institutions and society-wide deliberation.

Resolving these questions obviously cannot and should not be left to technologists alone. It requires every part of society to come together to help define this new chapter.

Demis Hassabis · Jul 14, 2026 · full quote
The technology’s future must be shaped by people, democratic institutions and society as a whole, not just by the companies building the most capable systems.

Sam Altman · Jun 17, 2026 · full quote
The future of AI and the fate of humanity must not be decided behind closed doors in Silicon Valley by billionaires seeking to maximize their power and profit. It must be decided by workers, parents, teachers, artists, scientists, communities and the American people.

Bernie Sanders · Jun 18, 2026 · full quote
We cannot be satisfied with merely calling for the moralization of machines — the so-called “alignment” of AI with human values — without also having the courage to insist on a further condition: the possibility of openly discussing the ethical frameworks involved and subjecting …

Pope Leo XIV · May 15, 2026 · full quote
The decisions made in the coming years will shape AI’s trajectory for decades, and those decisions require democratic oversight, not deference to whoever controls the infrastructure.

Lord Clement-Jones · Jun 5, 2026 · full quote

Inclusive representation

A second line of argument holds that rules written by a few actors and imposed on everyone else will reproduce exclusion and inequality. Supporters say countries, cultures, languages, underrepresented regions, workers, and citizens who will live with AI's consequences should be co-authors of governance, not spectators or downstream recipients.

The architecture of the AI age is being drawn right now, and more than half the world’s nations are not holding the pen. What we face is more than an implementation gap. It is a question of equity and of who shapes the rules of the AI age, and who must simply live by them.

Deemah AlYahya · Jul 8, 2026 · full quote
Second, global AI governance must be inclusive and representative. Standards and regulatory frameworks solutions should not be developed by a few and applied to many.

Government of Bangladesh · Jul 7, 2026 · full quote
Every country is involved in the AI value chain, whether through data, critical minerals, labour, markets, compute, or cloud capacity. And that means that all should have a meaningful stake in shaping and benefiting from AI. Otherwise, AI will deepen inequalities rather than help…

Volker Türk · Jul 7, 2026 · full quote
For Germany, a multi-stakeholder approach is a necessity. Industry, academia, and civil society, especially from underrepresented regions, must have a meaningful seat at the table. This approach must also include those who will feel the impact of AI most directly: workers, learne…

Carsten Wildberger · Jul 7, 2026 · full quote
Those furthest from today's centers of power must be co-authors of this future, with a meaningful role in building the infrastructure, shaping the rules, and sharing fairly in the value created.

Halla Tómasdóttir · Jul 7, 2026 · full quote
Countries should not only receive AI systems delivered elsewhere, they must also be able to build, adopt, evaluate, and govern systems that reflect their own languages, institutions, cultural context, and development priorities.

Government of Philippines · Jul 6, 2026 · full quote

Safer and more accountable

Many supporters link public involvement to safer and more trustworthy AI. They argue that standards set by a few are neither accountable nor safe, and that transparency, disclosure, impact assessment, meaningful human oversight, and participation by affected communities are needed to test safety claims, expose failures, and build trust.

A safety standard that is set by a few is not accountable and it is not safe.

Rebecca Finlay · Jul 7, 2026 · full quote
Safety claims must be accompanied by the conditions under which systems were tested, known limitations and failure rates disaggregated by language, gender, disability, region, skin tone, and more. Disclosure of training data provenance must be standard. We cannot hold a system ac…

Shumaila Husseini Shahani · Jul 7, 2026 · full quote
A human-centric approach focusing on the needs and perspectives of human beings must remain at the heart of AI development and use, ensuring that people and their rights remain central throughout the lifecycle of AI systems. At the same time, AI governance must remain inclusive a…

Government of Czechia · Jul 7, 2026 · full quote
Gender and child rights impact assessment must be mandatory, conducted before deployment with affected communities participating, not merely documented.

Nighat Dad · Jul 7, 2026 · full quote
As AI capabilities continue to advance, we believe effective safety frameworks should continue to be developed through democratic institutions, informed by technical expertise and broad stakeholder input, to promote accountability and public trust.

Chris Lehane · Jun 2, 2026 · full quote

Lived experience as evidence

Several quotes frame participation not just as fairness but as a source of expertise. Lived experience and community knowledge from workers, patients, people with disabilities, children, and other affected groups are presented as necessary for identifying harms, shaping rights-respecting design, and guiding governance.

It calls for recognizing lived experiences and community knowledge as expertise and ensuring those most affected have influence over AI governance.

Franco Giandana Di Gena · Jul 7, 2026 · full quote
The AI Commission puts patients’ voices at the centre, bringing too often unheard perspectives from the margins into the heart of decision-making. This means patient experience directly shapes how these technologies are developed, regulated and used in practice.

Henrietta Hughes · Jun 11, 2026 · full quote
Artificial intelligence has the potential to be one of the most transformative accessibility tools of our generation. But innovation alone is not enough. As the Government of Canada implements its new AI Strategy, accessibility must be built in by design, not added as an aftertho…

Christopher T. Sutton · Jun 8, 2026 · full quote
Worker voice belongs at the center of how AI gets implemented.

Partnership on AI · Jun 29, 2026 · full quote
Think also of children's rights to expression, participation, education, and information in a digital age, all of which they are calling for actively, and their voices must also be heard, even if not quite in this room today.

Sonia Livingstone · Jul 7, 2026 · full quote

Institutionalized deliberation

Supporters often argue that consultation must be built into governance rather than treated as a one-off gesture. They call for structured public deliberation, citizen-led bodies, formal evidence-taking, and defined decision points so public input can shape agendas, recommendations, and accountability before choices are locked in.

First, we need to treat public participation as a source of evidence. Participation does not just mean collecting or representing views, but making sure that those views shape agendas, evidence priorities, and recommendations.

Gaia Marcus · Jul 7, 2026 · full quote
Integrate structured public deliberation into AI policy, regulatory and high-risk public-sector deployment cycles, positioning engagement upstream at defined stages of decision-making rather than after choices have been made. In a sociotechnical framing of AI, where impacts emerg…

National Economic and Social Council · Apr 1, 2026 · full quote
A commitment is needed to embed public participation into the architecture of AI governance. This will link bottom-up capacity building and deliberation with top-down global fora: driving more responsive and inclusive governance decisions while mobilising local communities as all…

Citizens' Track on AI · Jul 6, 2026 · full quote
The noble Lord, Lord Holmes, suggested a cross-sector AI Bill. I would go further and establish a cross-party, pre-legislative scrutiny committee of both Houses to take evidence on the proposals in such a Bill. [...] AI calls for the kind of committee that is able to look forward…

Lord McNally · Jun 4, 2026 · full quote
That is what the People’s Commission is for: a citizen-led body where workers, families, educators, and local leaders deliberate seriously about how to harness AI for the common good — and turn that deliberation into accountability, policy, and action.

Shimon Waldfogel · Jun 15, 2026 · full quote

Middle ground

Expertise with public direction

Some supporters explicitly present public deliberation as complementary to expertise rather than a substitute for it. In this view, democratic processes and public oversight should set values, bounds, and priorities, while technical and domain experts inform implementation, risk management, and the practical design of governance.

Representative AI Governance is not a replacement for expertise, but instead channels experts to focus on the issues most critical to the public. In this governance arrangement, the public defines the values and the priorities and experts provide the technical implementation.

Kris Rose · Jun 17, 2026 · full quote
But the governance of the most powerful systems, as well as decisions regarding their deployment, must have strong public oversight. We believe people around the world should democratically decide on the bounds and defaults for AI systems. Second, we believe it would be unintuit…

Sam Altman · 2023 · full quote
As AI capabilities continue to advance, we believe effective safety frameworks should continue to be developed through democratic institutions, informed by technical expertise and broad stakeholder input, to promote accountability and public trust.

Chris Lehane · Jun 2, 2026 · full quote
AI governance cannot be written by governments or technology companies alone. Civil society, researchers, and the technical community bring knowledge that we lack. And it's our task to give this multi-stakeholder real seats at the real table.

Billemijn Aerts · Jul 7, 2026 · full quote
Realizing these goals requires a multistakeholder approach including elected officials, government workers, civil society, academia, and industry.

Partnership on AI · Feb 2026 · full quote

Neither companies nor states alone

A more cautious strand says the alternative to developer control is not simple government control. These quotes warn against both regulatory capture and political misuse, and therefore argue for shared governance across governments, industry, academia, civil society, and other stakeholders rather than any single center of authority.

A bit of a conflicted endorsement from me. I’m firmly opposed to regulatory capture and deeply wary of how any government might use technology this powerful. At the same time, governments need to understand what’s coming and act in their citizens’ best interests.

Joseph Krisciunas · Jul 2026 · full quote
Some AI leaders say foundational AI models are general-purpose tools, not arbiters of values. More reason that neither profit-motivated technology companies nor politically-motivated governments can be left to determine society’s AI moral compass. Publics may not understand all t…

Gerrit W. Gong · May 26, 2026 · full quote
We do need an approach that is inclusive, that makes room for every government in the world, as well as multi-stakeholder conversations as were happening right now today. Government cannot act alone. The private sector cannot act alone.

Brad Smith · Jul 7, 2026 · full quote
AI governance is a shared responsibility. No single institution can meet this challenge alone. By combining our mandates, expertise, and global networks, and by engaging governments, the private sector, academia, and civil society, we can help bridge capacity gaps and ensure that…

UNESCO · Jul 6, 2026 · full quote
It means involving all stakeholders—governments, businesses, civil society, the research community—because no one can write these rules alone.

Alessio Butti · Jul 7, 2026 · full quote

Insights

Support for broader oversight is not limited to regulators or activists; several AI-company leaders, lab representatives, and industry figures also say technologists should not decide alone.
Many quotes define inclusion as real influence over agendas, standards, and recommendations, not just symbolic participation or consultation.
The publics to be included are described at multiple levels, from all countries and citizens to specifically named groups such as workers, children, women, people with disabilities, Indigenous partners, and local governments.
The discussion combines global and domestic frames, with some quotes emphasizing every nation having a seat at the table and others focusing on workplaces, schools, healthcare, and community life.
Calls for deliberation are frequently paired with concrete mechanisms such as impact assessments, disclosure requirements, citizen forums, scrutiny committees, and other standing governance structures.

Across the provided material, speakers from governments, industry, academia, civil society, labor, and faith communities argue that AI value choices should not be left to developers alone. The main questions in these quotes concern how participation should be organized, which publics and institutions should have influence, and how democratic legitimacy should be combined with expertise, transparency, and workable governance.

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Xi Jinping
President of the People's Republic of China.

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We must shape the values of AI with humanity’s common values, and make good use of AI technologies to increase understanding, tolerance, exchanges, and sharing among all civilizations.
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Nobel laureate, AI Researcher and CEO of DeepMind

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Resolving these questions obviously cannot and should not be left to technologists alone. It requires every part of society to come together to help define this new chapter.
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Harold F. Linder Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study; former Acting Director of the White House OSTP

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The People-First Chatbot Act responds in a forceful way to the concerns many Americans rightly have about this powerful technology as generative AI has moved from novelty to infrastructure over the last four years. The bill's boldness rests on a care...
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Secretary-General of the Digital Cooperation Organization.

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The architecture of the AI age is being drawn right now, and more than half the world’s nations are not holding the pen. What we face is more than an implementation gap. It is a question of equity and of who shapes the rules of the AI age, and who mu...
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Iqbal Mohamed
UK Member of Parliament for Dewsbury and Batley; former pharmaceutical regulatory professional.

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A handful of companies run by men answerable to no electorate and standing before no constituents are making decisions right now that will shape healthcare, education, employment, childhood and the economy more than most Acts of this Parliament ever ...
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UK Member of Parliament for Poole.

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It must make the world fairer, not more unequal, and it should give UK citizens a meaningful say in decisions that will affect their lives.
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James Frith
UK Member of Parliament and Parliamentary Secretary in the Cabinet Office.

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We must collectively decide how we build a better society in an AI-enabled world. AI must serve us, and not the other way round.
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Jalekim Kakkar
Executive Director of the Centre for Communication Governance at National Law University Delhi.

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We need to replace the onus back on platforms, companies, also governments, parliamentarians, and regulators to set up systems that really truly work safely while allowing for children's autonomy and growth and development.
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Sonia Livingstone
Professor of Social Psychology at the London School of Economics and member of the UN Independent International Scientific Panel on AI.

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Think also of children's rights to expression, participation, education, and information in a digital age, all of which they are calling for actively, and their voices must also be heard, even if not quite in this room today.
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Esther Egobamien-Mshelia
Member of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).

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CEDAW tools, including its General Recommendation No. 40, also remind us that women must participate fully and equally in the design, governance, and oversight of AI systems.
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Policy and advocacy lead at Tech Global Institute, a policy lab focused on equity and accountability in technology governance.

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Safety claims must be accompanied by the conditions under which systems were tested, known limitations and failure rates disaggregated by language, gender, disability, region, skin tone, and more. Disclosure of training data provenance must be standa...
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International Development Law Organization
Intergovernmental organization that promotes the rule of law and sustainable development.

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Human rights and the rule of law must underpin the development and deployment of AI digital technologies, notably in the justice sector. AI systems must be designed in a way that expands access, serves people's needs, and prevents new forms of exclus...
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UN representative for the Global Forum for Media Development.

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We need one public digital infrastructure, including cloud services, that are accessible, affordable, non-discriminatory, and human rights compliant by design, driven by communities including media in the public interest.
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Special Representative for Emerging Technologies of Mexico.

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We should talk about governance, but rather the adoption of a new social contract, not only in the international context but also in national context.
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Assistant Secretary-General, United Nations Youth Office.

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Young people are the most active users of artificial intelligence. They're actually most of the innovators and the creators within some of these huge AI technology firms, but almost always they are not the decision makers, and they will live the long...
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Director-General for Communications, Networks, Content and Technology at the European Commission.

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National government of Bangladesh, speaking through its delegation at the UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance in July 2026.

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Second, global AI governance must be inclusive and representative. Standards and regulatory frameworks solutions should not be developed by a few and applied to many.
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Policy analyst at Access Now.

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It calls for recognizing lived experiences and community knowledge as expertise and ensuring those most affected have influence over AI governance.
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DiploTech Solutions
Digital-governance organization advocating inclusive, multi-stakeholder AI policy.

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True inclusion requires concrete capacity building through a global AI capacity fund, and decentralized tri-sectoral diplomatic hubs where diplomats, private innovators, and civil society co-design policy.
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National government of Somalia, speaking through its Minister of Communication and Technology at the UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance.

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Somalia welcomes the convening of this timely and important inaugural Global Dialogue on AI Governance. We commend the United Nations for creating an inclusive platform where all member states can contribute to shaping the future of AI.
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Pakistan's Minister of Information Technology and Telecommunication.

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First, inclusion is a voice in writing the rules. Norms, standards, and interoperability frameworks must be authored by both those already at the summit and those who've just started climbing.
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Advisor at Japan's Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications and visiting professor at the University of Tokyo.

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The Code of Conduct provides a voluntary framework for those organizations to assess and mitigate risks, and also to disclose relevant information on their risk management. So these frameworks are the very ambitious a multi-stakeholder approach for c...
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Alvita Oehtli
Member of the UN Independent International Scientific Panel on AI.

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A lot of times we are developing things without having children involved.
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Connectivity Technical Projects Coordinator for LOCNET, a collaboration initiative of the Association for Progressive Communications and Rhizomatica.

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Meaningful AI governance requires community participation, data sovereignty, diverse expertise, and investment in community-led digital infrastructure.
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Nighat Dad
Founder of the Digital Rights Foundation and digital-rights advocate.

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Gender and child rights impact assessment must be mandatory, conducted before deployment with affected communities participating, not merely documented.
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Óscar López Agüeda
Spain’s Minister for Digital Transformation and Civil Service.

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In Spain, we'd like to open a discussion, a democratic discussion that is also inclusive, where all of these voices lie, especially voices from Africa.
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Linda Bàño
Founder and CEO of Lawyers Hub of Africa, an organization working on law, technology, and justice.

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We believe in a multi-stakeholder approach to digital governance.
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Sima Bahous
Executive Director of UN Women.

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Women and girls, feminist technologists, indigenous communities, labor organizations, disability advocates, and civil society must be meaningfully involved and empowered.
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Uganda's Minister of State for Innovation, Communications Technology, and National Guidance.

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We therefore call for concrete partnership cooperation on input access, capacity building, and financing for development from all countries who are present today. Secondly, on safe, secure, and trustworthy AI, we favor interoperable standards based o...
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Haliki Choua Mohamed
Chad's Minister of Telecommunications, Digital Economy, and Digitalization of Public Administration.

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Chad has come to Geneva with a simple conviction, which is that the future of AI must be constructed with all of our participation for all in dignity, equity, inclusion, and sustainability.
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Ximena Lincalao
Chilean Minister of Science, Technology, Knowledge, and Innovation.

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Artificial intelligence is not just a technology, it's critical infrastructure transforming our economies. In democracy, governance requires the participation of all people.
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Paula Ingabire
Rwandan Minister of Information and Communication Technology and Innovation.

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Two years ago when we adopted the Global Digital Compact, we did so with a commitment to give everyone an equal voice to shape the future of artificial intelligence. Today, we make an important step towards delivering on that promise.
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Meutya Viada Hafid
Indonesian Minister of Communications and Digital Affairs.

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This dialogue offers a valuable opportunity to shape AI global governance that is inclusive, human-centric, development-oriented, and grounded in international cooperation. Indonesia also reaffirms that human rights, privacy, transparency, accountabi...
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Chai Chanok Chitchop
Thai Minister of Digital Economy and Society.

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Please use Thailand's current situation as a sandbox for AI governance, not simply as another place to discuss AI. But a place where global principles can be translated into practical implementations real-time, where everyone can test solutions toget...
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Carsten Wildberger
German Federal Minister for Digital Transformation and Government Modernization.

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For Germany, a multi-stakeholder approach is a necessity. Industry, academia, and civil society, especially from underrepresented regions, must have a meaningful seat at the table. This approach must also include those who will feel the impact of AI ...
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Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women
UN treaty body that monitors implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women.

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CEDAW tools, including its General Recommendation No. 40, also remind us that women must participate fully and equally in the design, governance, and oversight of AI systems.
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Romanian National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications
Romania's public authority and communications regulator.

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Romania believes that AI race not— should not be settled only by those who train the most capable front models. Romania pleads for an approach that balances opportunity with risk and that keeps the door open for every country to be co-authors of this...
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Ayah Bdeir
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We are at a very unique moment in time where, surprisingly, government and consumers and businesses are all— all have consensus. Consensus that AI cannot be concentrated in the hands of the few AI must be sovereign, and AI must serve all of humanity....
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Yet despite this reality, they remain largely absent from global AI governance deliberations. This matters because AI must respond to the realities cities face today.
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Paula Bragantes Zamora
Costa Rican diplomat who co-chaired the UN Global Dialogue on Artificial Intelligence Governance in July 2026.

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The world does not need more AI principles. It needs a common way to prove they're being implemented.
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Rebecca Finlay
CEO of Partnership on AI.

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A safety standard that is set by a few is not accountable and it is not safe.
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Government of Pakistan
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Norms, standards, and interoperability frameworks must be authored by both those already at the summit and those who've just started climbing.
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Jovan Kurbalija
Executive Director of DiploFoundation and head of the Geneva Internet Platform; longtime digital governance and cyber diplomacy expert.

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The third one, participation gap. This is a good example of having louder voices, but we still need louder voices for many communities which are affected by AI.
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Ramanjit Singh Chima
Policy director and public-interest technologist at the Association for Progressive Communications; speaker at the UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance in July 2026.

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From the beginning of our existence, APC's network has recognized that it is crucial for the international system to engage with civil society, public interest technologists, and grassroots communities on the design and conversation around technologi...
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Association for Progressive Communications
International nonprofit network working on digital rights, internet governance, and inclusive technology policy.

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When we have seen success in digital cooperation at the global level, that has been when governments, civil society, the technical community, academia, the private sector, and international organizations have worked together. AI governance should bui...
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Niamh Smith
Ireland's Minister of State with responsibility for Trade Promotion, Artificial Intelligence and Digital Transformation.

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We need to ensure that the voices of all society can contribute to the solutions.
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Brad Smith
Microsoft vice chair and president

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We do need an approach that is inclusive, that makes room for every government in the world, as well as multi-stakeholder conversations as were happening right now today. Government cannot act alone. The private sector cannot act alone.
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Jason Pielemeier
Executive Director of the Global Network Initiative.

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Effective governments will require inclusive process. It needs common normative frameworks, and it needs clear focus and priorities.
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Government of Ethiopia
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Ethiopia believes that continuous and inclusive dialogue under the United Nations is essential to building trust, shared understanding, and scientific consensus needed for interoperable AI governance.
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Global Cities Hub
Geneva-based platform connecting cities and local and regional governments to the UN and wider International Geneva ecosystem.

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Local and regional governments should be recognized as a distinct governance actor alongside national governments, industry, academia, and civil society. They should be systematically included in thematic discussions on interoperability and compatibi...
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Government of Czechia
Government of Czechia speaking through its deputy foreign minister at the UN Global Dialogue on Artificial Intelligence Governance in July 2026.

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A human-centric approach focusing on the needs and perspectives of human beings must remain at the heart of AI development and use, ensuring that people and their rights remain central throughout the lifecycle of AI systems. At the same time, AI gove...
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Gaia Marcus
Director of the Ada Lovelace Institute

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First, we need to treat public participation as a source of evidence. Participation does not just mean collecting or representing views, but making sure that those views shape agendas, evidence priorities, and recommendations.
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Kirti Bardhan Singh
India's Minister of State for External Affairs.

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Last year the United Nations General Assembly launched the Global Dialogue on Air Governance, a landmark initiative that gives every country, along with industry, academia, and civil society, a meaningful voice in shaping the future of artificial int...
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Billemijn Aerts
Netherlands Minister for the Digital Economy and Sovereignty.

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AI governance cannot be written by governments or technology companies alone. Civil society, researchers, and the technical community bring knowledge that we lack. And it's our task to give this multi-stakeholder real seats at the real table.
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Alessio Butti
Italy's Secretary of State for Innovation.

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It means involving all stakeholders—governments, businesses, civil society, the research community—because no one can write these rules alone.
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Halla Tómasdóttir
President of Iceland.

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Those furthest from today's centers of power must be co-authors of this future, with a meaningful role in building the infrastructure, shaping the rules, and sharing fairly in the value created.
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Américo Muchanga
Mozambican Minister of Communications and Digital Transformation.

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The future of AI must be built on equity, cooperation, and shared prosperity. Mozambique therefore calls for a global AI ecosystem founded on three essential pillars. First, inclusive governance. Global AI rules should reflect the voices and realitie...
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Seema Malhotra
UK Minister for the Indo-Pacific and Minister for Equalities.

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To make a real difference, we must work in diverse partnerships—partnerships between countries, policymakers, researchers, and the private sector. [...] Ultimately, the UN's unique strength lies in its ability to bring countries together and ensure e...
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Tatenda Mavetera
Zimbabwean Minister of ICT, Postal and Courier Services.

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For the first time, every nation has an equal seat at the table to shape the future of this transformative technology.
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Niamh Smyth
Irish Minister of State for Trade Promotion, Artificial Intelligence and Digital Transformation.

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As we come together to meet these collective challenges, we need to ensure that the voices of all society can contribute to the solutions. [...] This dialogue can facilitate much-needed efforts towards shared governance language incorporating transpa...
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Karsten Wildberger
Germany's Federal Minister for Digital Transformation and Government Modernization; former CEO of Ceconomy

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For Germany, a multi-stakeholder approach is a necessity. Industry, academia, and civil society, especially from underrepresented regions, must have a meaningful seat at the table. This approach must also include those who will feel the impact of AI ...
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Volker Türk
UN human rights chief

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Every country is involved in the AI value chain, whether through data, critical minerals, labour, markets, compute, or cloud capacity. And that means that all should have a meaningful stake in shaping and benefiting from AI. Otherwise, AI will deepen...
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Sunny Gandhi
Encode AI political affairs VP

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SB 315 is the strongest AI safety law in the country. It builds on the frameworks California and New York have already passed and goes one step further by requiring independent audits, so the public doesn't have to take AI companies at their word. Il...
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Kwame Raoul
Attorney General of Illinois; supports state AI guardrails and transparency in the absence of federal oversight.

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Frontier model AI systems have the potential to be used for many good things. However, due to their massive computing power, they also could cause catastrophic events, such as cyberattacks or the system evading control by developers or users. In the ...
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Steve Wimmer
Senior Technical and Policy Advisor at Transparency Coalition; advocates accountable AI governance and state leadership.

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SB 315 passed with overwhelming bi-partisan support because lawmakers recognize the same basic truth: the public demands safety and transparency from the AI companies shaping their future. Illinois has created a new template for responsible AI govern...
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Emanuel "Chris" Welch
Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives.

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The advancements we’ve seen in just the past few years show the tremendous potential that new technology has to transform our economy, remove barriers, and create opportunity—but it also raises critical questions about everything from safety, to our ...
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Khaled El-Enany
UNESCO Director-General

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Humanity’s rich and diverse cultural and linguistic heritage is our greatest source of creativity, identity and resilience, but we must ensure Artificial Intelligence strengthens, rather than erodes this diversity. Global AI governance is essential t...
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UNESCO
UN agency for education, science, culture

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AI governance is a shared responsibility. No single institution can meet this challenge alone. By combining our mandates, expertise, and global networks, and by engaging governments, the private sector, academia, and civil society, we can help bridge...
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Government of Philippines
National government of the Philippines, speaking through its delegation at the UN Global Dialogue on Artificial Intelligence Governance in July 2026.

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Countries should not only receive AI systems delivered elsewhere, they must also be able to build, adopt, evaluate, and govern systems that reflect their own languages, institutions, cultural context, and development priorities.
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Government of Lesotho
National government of Lesotho, speaking through its deputy prime minister at the UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance in July 2026.

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AI governance must be practical, inclusive, and development-oriented.
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Government of Algeria
National government of Algeria, speaking through its minister at the UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance in July 2026.

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For Algeria, AI governance must be shared internationally responsibly, and anchored in dialogue, inclusion, and legitimacy.
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Government of Cambodia
National government of Cambodia, speaking through its minister at the UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance in July 2026.

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We view the private sector, academia, civil society and citizens not as subject of regulation but as a partner in operationalizing AI governance and ethics.
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Citizens' Track on AI
Civil-society initiative advancing participatory and democratic governance of artificial intelligence.

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A commitment is needed to embed public participation into the architecture of AI governance. This will link bottom-up capacity building and deliberation with top-down global fora: driving more responsive and inclusive governance decisions while mobil...
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António Guterres
UN Secretary-General

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Artificial intelligence is advancing at runaway speed. A technology that can reshape economies, transform the world of work, sway elections and tilt the balance of security is being deployed faster than anyone — including the people building it — can...
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Annalena Baerbock
President of the UN General Assembly

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The potential and peril of AI were too significant, too far-reaching and too consequential to be left to a few.
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Doreen Bogdan-Martin
ITU Secretary-General

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In just three years, since generative AI (artificial intelligence) went mainstream, we are ready to shape its trajectory together during this Geneva Digital Week.
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Government of Mexico
National government of Mexico, speaking through its delegation at the UN Global Dialogue on Artificial Intelligence Governance in July 2026.

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It is absolutely critical to have open dialogue that is inclusive between governments and representatives from different stakeholders.
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Government of Egypt
National government of Egypt, speaking through its delegation at the UN Global Dialogue on Artificial Intelligence Governance in July 2026.

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Ultimately, meaningful inclusion in AI governance is measured not by participation alone, but by influence.
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Government of Guatemala
National government of Guatemala, speaking through its delegation at the UN Global Dialogue on Artificial Intelligence Governance in July 2026.

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Guatemala will continue to actively participate in the international cooperation fora in order to share experiences, to craft consensus, and to promote AI governance that is even more inclusive, more representative, and human-centered.
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Egriselda López
Permanent Representative of El Salvador to the United Nations and co-chair of the Global Dialogue on AI Governance.

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Our collective success will be defined by every voice, perspective, experience, and contribution that is shaping the path forward for AI.
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Amandeep Singh Gill
UN Under-Secretary-General and head of the Office for Digital and Emerging Technologies

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The Global Digital Compact gave the multilateral system two things it never had before: an independent scientific panel to assess AI's impacts and opportunities, and a global dialogue where every government has a seat at the table. Today, for the fir...
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Angel Brodin
OpenAI employee and signatory to the July 2026 Pacing the Frontier statement.

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AI will reshape humanity, but its direction is not set in stone; it is ours to shape with the care and conviction that humanity’s future deserves.
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Toby Scales
CISO for Media & Entertainment at Google Cloud; signatory to the July 2026 Pacing the Frontier statement.

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AI is a transformative technology, and we must not let the transformation be shaped solely by the demands of capital markets.
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Joseph Krisciunas
OpenAI employee and signatory to the July 2026 Pacing the Frontier statement.

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A bit of a conflicted endorsement from me. I’m firmly opposed to regulatory capture and deeply wary of how any government might use technology this powerful. At the same time, governments need to understand what’s coming and act in their citizens’ be...
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Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Intergovernmental organisation that develops evidence-based public policy standards and analysis.

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Governments should: Foster engagement with citizens stakeholders in shaping and governing AI systems for participation, including by leveraging citizen participation processes to involve citizens in AI development and governance.
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Jose Miguelito Enriquez
Research fellow and commentator on AI governance and public policy at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies.

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Global AI governance must move beyond industry hype and technological optimism by confronting the technology's real socio-economic costs through evidence-based, people-centred policymaking.
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Washington State AI Task Force
Washington state task force established to study AI impacts and recommend governance measures.

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The advisory body should solicit input from a broad set of stakeholders—including industry, academia, labor, Tribes and other affected communities—to ensure recommendations reflect diverse interests and technical realities.
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Nick Brown
Attorney General of Washington

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Washington does not have to choose between embracing innovation and protecting people. The goal has always been to find a balance that ensures that as AI continues to evolve it does so in a way that works for everyone, not just the companies developi...
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Partnership on AI
AI governance nonprofit, multi-stakeholder

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Worker voice belongs at the center of how AI gets implemented.
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Edite Estrela
Portuguese parliamentarian who spoke at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on democratic governance of AI in June 2026.

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The key question is not only what AI can do, but who controls it, under what rules and in whose interests.
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Kristoffer Lindberg
Swedish parliamentarian who addressed the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on AI and democratic control in June 2026.

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And these are not questions that tech companies should answer, but questions that we should answer.
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Nadejda Iordanova
Bulgarian parliamentarian who spoke at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on AI, democracy, and democratic oversight in June 2026.

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That is why inaction is not an option. Innovation must go hand in hand with democratic oversight. Technology must serve citizens, not manipulate them.
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Sergio Gago
Chief Technology Officer at Cloudera who spoke at UN Open Source Week 2026 about accountable, human-centered AI deployment with incident reporting and community voice.

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Researchers, civil society, academia should test those claims, expose failures, localize systems, and ensure that affected communities, big or small, have a meaningful voice on creating them.
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Bernie Sanders
U.S. Senator from Vermont

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The future of AI and the fate of humanity must not be decided behind closed doors in Silicon Valley by billionaires seeking to maximize their power and profit. It must be decided by workers, parents, teachers, artists, scientists, communities and the...
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Sam Altman
CEO at OpenAI

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The technology’s future must be shaped by people, democratic institutions and society as a whole, not just by the companies building the most capable systems
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Kris Rose
Georgetown McCourt School of Public Policy Tech & Policy Visiting Fellow, AI transformation leader at IBM, and former technology-governance official.

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Representative AI Governance is not a replacement for expertise, but instead channels experts to focus on the issues most critical to the public. In this governance arrangement, the public defines the values and the priorities and experts provide the...
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Shimon Waldfogel
Founder of the People’s Commission on Technology and the American Future, writing on democratic governance of artificial intelligence.

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That is what the People’s Commission is for: a citizen-led body where workers, families, educators, and local leaders deliberate seriously about how to harness AI for the common good — and turn that deliberation into accountability, policy, and actio...
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Anthropic
AI safety research company

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Public input is critical to ensuring that powerful AI serves humanity’s interests.
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Henrietta Hughes
Patient Safety Commissioner and deputy chair of the UK National Commission into the Regulation of AI in Healthcare.

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The AI Commission puts patients’ voices at the centre, bringing too often unheard perspectives from the margins into the heart of decision-making. This means patient experience directly shapes how these technologies are developed, regulated and used ...
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Michael Rovatsos

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We are at a defining moment for AI policy in the UK. The decisions made in the next few years – on infrastructure, on governance, on who gets a voice in shaping these technologies – will determine whether AI delivers on its potential for public good.
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Oliver Escobar
Chair of Public Policy and Democratic Innovation at the University of Edinburgh; deliberative democracy scholar and citizens' assembly designer

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AI is reshaping public services, democratic institutions and everyday life at a pace that has outrun meaningful public input. The Data and AI Exchange was designed to show that when stakeholders are given the time and structure to deliberate seriousl...
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Christopher T. Sutton
Accessibility Commissioner at the Canadian Human Rights Commission.

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Artificial intelligence has the potential to be one of the most transformative accessibility tools of our generation. But innovation alone is not enough. As the Government of Canada implements its new AI Strategy, accessibility must be built in by de...
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Government of Canada
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The third is participation: the principle that Canadians should actively shape how AI is used in their lives, their workplaces, and their communities. That means individuals deciding when and how AI belongs in their daily lives. It means workers and ...
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The Lord Bishop of Oxford
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We therefore need a much bigger, wider conversation on the societal impact of AI, drawing in the whole of our society. Governments need a richer, deeper understanding of what it means to be human, beyond creating a nation of consumers to a nation of ...
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Baroness Owen of Alderley Edge
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A more moral AI is not enough if that morality is determined by a few. I wholly agree that the development of AI should not be left to a handful of individuals in Silicon Valley.
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The Lord Bishop of Portsmouth
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The healthy navigation of AI in the nation’s schools, colleges and universities is a responsibility for all of us, not simply to be left to multinationals or content creators.
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Baroness Teather
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Faith leaders, reading the signs of the times, are playing a vital role here: urging us all to consider the wider philosophical, ethical and moral questions around this advancing technology, and how we want to shape it to support human flourishing, n...
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The Archbishop of Canterbury
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We must cultivate the character to deal with the opportunities, challenges and temptations that such powerful technology places in our hands personally and corporately, involving people, communities and civil society in conversations about AI, drawin...
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Lord Clement-Jones
Tim Clement-Jones, Baron Clement-Jones CBE; Liberal Democrat peer; UK House of Lords AI policy expert

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The decisions made in the coming years will shape AI’s trajectory for decades, and those decisions require democratic oversight, not deference to whoever controls the infrastructure.
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Adegboyega Ojo
Professor and Canada Research Chair in Governance and Artificial Intelligence at Carleton University’s School of Public Policy and Administration.

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Surveys are the most common tool for identifying shared public values, along with multi-criteria decision frameworks and methods for combining preferences. However, experts recommend shifting toward more interactive and deliberative processes that br...
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Lord Nagaraju
British Labour life peer, technology consultant, and adviser on AI policy.

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Governance must include technologists and investors, but must not be left to them alone. Ethicists, teachers, parents, clinicians, workers, entrepreneurs, civil society, young people and parliamentarians must all have a voice.
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Evan Solomon
Canada's Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation; Liberal MP for Toronto Centre

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AI for All aims to ensure that artificial intelligence serves the interests of all Canadians, today and for generations to come. The success of AI for All depends on ongoing collaboration with provinces, territories, Indigenous partners, industry and...
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Anthropic Institute
Anthropic policy and research institute studying AI capabilities, governance, and societal impacts.

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The window to investigate the questions together is here, and people outside AI companies should be involved in this deliberation.
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Mark Carney
Prime Minister of Canada; former Governor of the Bank of England and Bank of Canada

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We will reinforce Canadian sovereignty so Canadians can make their own choices on how AI is built, governed, and used.
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Lord McNally
Liberal Democrat member of the UK House of Lords and former minister; supports cross-party scrutiny of AI regulation.

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The noble Lord, Lord Holmes, suggested a cross-sector AI Bill. I would go further and establish a cross-party, pre-legislative scrutiny committee of both Houses to take evidence on the proposals in such a Bill. [...] AI calls for the kind of committe...
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Lord Holmes of Richmond
Conservative member of the UK House of Lords; advocates cross-sector AI regulation and public engagement.

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Crucially, we need public engagement across this if we are going to enable all the opportunities from AI. [...] We need this for citizens, creatives, consumers, innovators and investors all to be enabled and empowered to say full-throatedly together,...
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Valérie Pisano
President and CEO of Mila – Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute.

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AI safety should not be left to a handful of large companies making trade-offs behind closed doors. Partnering with ROOST lets our researchers work on harms with real public stakes, and commits us to putting what we build where any provider can use i...
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Chris Lehane
OpenAI chief global affairs officer

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As AI capabilities continue to advance, we believe effective safety frameworks should continue to be developed through democratic institutions, informed by technical expertise and broad stakeholder input, to promote accountability and public trust.
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OECD
International economic organisation

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Significant efforts go into listening to external perspectives, but only half of OECD countries and no accession candidate countries report basing their AI investment decisions on citizen needs or demands.
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Tim Davies
Open data and governance researcher

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A successful dialogue is one anchored in everyday citizen concerns, not only expert, industry or elite input.
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Joseph Evans
Research fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research, researching AI and work.

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AI has the potential to transform working life for better or worse. The crucial question is who gets to shape that transition. If workers are shut out of decisions about how AI is used, the gains risk being captured by a small number of firms and sha...
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Paul Nowak
General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress (TUC).

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To deliver on the promise of technology to enhance lives, inside and out of the workplace, AI must be designed, governed and negotiated by and for workers. Our guiding principle is simple: change must be done with working people, not to them.
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Federica Onori
Italian parliamentarian and OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Special Representative on Artificial Intelligence.

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No single solution exists. A balanced and comprehensive approach combining regulation, technical safeguards, digital literacy, democratic oversight and cross-border co-operation is needed, while safeguarding freedom of expression and democratic debat...
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Gerrit W. Gong
Latter-day Saint apostle

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Some AI leaders say foundational AI models are general-purpose tools, not arbiters of values. More reason that neither profit-motivated technology companies nor politically-motivated governments can be left to determine society’s AI moral compass. Pu...
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Joanna Shields
Director of the Responsible AI Future Foundation and former UK minister for internet safety and security.

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Private capability, however well intentioned, is not the same as democratic legitimacy. The majority of the world’s nations, representing the majority of the world’s people, are not part of the equation.
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Governor of California
Official executive office of the Governor of California.

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All Californians are invited to participate in this innovative program, which provides every resident a seat at the table in shaping state policy on AI.
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Micah Weinberg
Carnegie California scholar

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The intersection of AI and deliberative democracy is not merely a site of risk; it is also a domain of genuine democratic possibility.
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Rashid Mushkani
Researcher and author on participatory AI governance and public-space AI systems.

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PAU translates these constraints into a municipal governance architecture with disaggregated reporting, a versioned value register, standing deliberative cells, procurement clauses, and defined pause and rollback authority.
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Pope Leo XIV
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We cannot be satisfied with merely calling for the moralization of machines — the so-called “alignment” of AI with human values — without also having the courage to insist on a further condition: the possibility of openly discussing the ethical frame...
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Alireza Safarpour
PhD student in law at the University of Debrecen, writing on artificial intelligence and democratic governance.

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The future of AI and democracy should not be left only to engineers, companies, or governments. It must be shaped through democratic debate, legal accountability, public participation, and strong protection of fundamental rights.
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Jeffery Marino
Director of the California Office of Data and Innovation.

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Engaged California has proven to be the most dynamic tool for listening to communities at scale. California is home to 33 of the top 50 AI companies worldwide. This topic supports the Administration’s efforts to understand how people feel about this ...
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Nick Maduros
Secretary of the California Government Operations Agency.

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The more Californians are engaged in the democratic process, the better able we’ll be to confront the challenges we face together. Engaged California is about using new avenues and tools to listen to Californians from across the state on issues that ...
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Gavin Newsom
Governor of California

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We’ve got to be clear-eyed about this moment: AI is moving fast, bringing enormous opportunity, but also real risks. Californians deserve a seat at the table as we shape what’s to come. Engaged California is making sure people aren’t just spectators,...
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Katie B. Wilson
Seattle City Councilmember who published a 2026 vision for responsible AI and worker protections.

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We will create infrastructure to elevate worker and community voices on long-term planning and building of AI tools, impacts, and policies.
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European Economic and Social Committee (EESC)
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Governance should ensure balanced representation and continuous feedback from all stakeholders, including employers, workers and civil society.
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Swaptik Chowdhury
Technical AI governance researcher and adjunct lecturer at Loyola Marymount University.

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AI can facilitate large-scale deliberation, but it cannot determine values, resolve political conflict, or substitute for democratic judgment. Those functions remain inherently human and contestable.
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Gilad Abiri
Legal scholar on AI governance

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Second, its very comprehensiveness forecloses democratic contestation by resolving questions about AI values, moral status, and conscientious objection that should remain open for public deliberation. Anthropic's own 2023 experiment in participatory ...
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Arne Hintz
Professor in the School of Journalism, Media and Culture at Cardiff University, researching data justice, participation, and AI governance.

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AI governance that is situated in data justice principles requires appropriate institutional governance arrangements as well as strategies addressing the socio-political-economic context of governance. In light of threats to civic agency and democrac...
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National Economic and Social Council
Irish government advisory body bringing together social partners to advise on strategic policy.

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Integrate structured public deliberation into AI policy, regulatory and high-risk public-sector deployment cycles, positioning engagement upstream at defined stages of decision-making rather than after choices have been made. In a sociotechnical fram...
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Denisa Reshef Kera
Associate Professor in Science, Technology and Society at Bar-Ilan University; researcher on participatory AI governance and algorithmic regulation.

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The challenge for participatory AI governance is thus not only to expand participation but also to reconsider the linguistic conditions under which normative claims can become regulatory commitments.
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Alistair Stephenson
Chief Strategy and Impact Officer at the National Domestic Workers Alliance.

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Workers are not uniformly fearful of the technology itself. Many see practical upside in tools that reduce repetitive tasks, ease burnout, or expand access to knowledge. What they resist is unilateral deployment. They do not want AI introduced withou...
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Ben Bartlett

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AI systems should be transparent, include public input, and remain subject to human oversight. When guided by equity and democratic accountability, AI can support fair employment practices, workforce development, and inclusive economic growth while s...
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Steve Feldstein
Senior Fellow in the Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

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We're at a point right now where neither having the Pentagon write the rules, whatever those might be, nor having a company, even one as presumably as well intentioned as Anthropic, making decisions about this is a particularly good place to be as a ...
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Malcolm Byrne
Irish TD (Fianna Fáil)

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Our report recommends that we should have a citizens' assembly on AI, digitalisation and technology. It is critical that we engage all sectors of society in discussions on the potential benefits but also the pitfalls of this new technology.
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Sinéad Gibney
Irish Social Democrats TD and member of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Artificial Intelligence.

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AI is not a force of nature. It is a tool. We have the power to shape it, but we can only shape it well if we listen to those who will be most affected by it.
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Andrew Charlton
Australian Assistant Minister for Science, Technology and the Digital Economy

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Decisions about data use, algorithmic management, surveillance, safety and reskilling are too consequential to be left solely to executives or engineers.
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Aidan Eyakuze
Chief Executive Officer of the Open Government Partnership and an open-government policy leader.

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AI governance should be built with the public. By default, this will then produce the infrastructure for the public.
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Alice Siu
Stanford deliberative democracy scholar

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The 2026 Industry-Wide Forum expands our discussion scope and further deepens our understanding of public attitudes towards AI agents. These deliberations will help ensure AI development remains aligned with societal values and expectations.
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Demos Helsinki
Independent Finnish think tank and research organisation focused on democratic governance, societal transformation, and public-interest technology.

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) development is currently outpacing public deliberation, allowing democratic oversight to slip as power concentrates in the private sector.
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Travis LaCroix
Assistant professor of philosophy at Durham University and researcher in AI ethics, governance, and value alignment.

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If alignment is framed only as a technical problem, the solutions will remain in the hands of technical elites. But if we recognise it as a question of power and justice, then alignment becomes a collective responsibility—one that demands democratic ...
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Steven Choi
Director of the Artificial Intelligence Community Engagement (AICE) Initiative.

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That is why I urge the Senate to make a baseline commitment: AI policy must be built with communities, not merely presented to them after the fact.
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Baroness Harding of Winscombe
Conservative life peer and business executive in the UK House of Lords

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It is asking, "What do these models currently do?" It is not asking, "What should they do?" I think we need ethicists, philosophers and social scientists to build that social, moral and then legal framework for this technology, which I would be the f...
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Baroness Kidron
UK House of Lords crossbench peer and digital rights advocate

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Advanced AI does not become unsafe in a vacuum; it becomes unsafe by design when it is developed without accountability, driven by profit incentives of private actors and embedded in infrastructure that the state can neither inspect nor exit.
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Chee Hae Chung
Postdoctoral Research Associate at Purdue University researching AI ethics, digital sovereignty, regulatory politics, and technology governance.

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Legal governance must therefore incorporate mechanisms of periodic review, institutional learning and participatory norm revision. This includes statutory mandates for reassessing classification criteria, integration of stakeholder and community inpu...
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Julian Lam
Digital Policy Hub master's fellow and University of British Columbia law student researching inclusive and legitimate AI governance.

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AIDA’s collapse illustrates that public participation cannot be an afterthought in AI regulation.
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Checks and Balances to Empower Citizens
Joint Effective Institutions Project and Collective Intelligence Project initiative on democratic safeguards for AI.

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The choices labs make about what systems refuse, whose norms they default to, and how they handle contested questions are effectively global policy set by a few firms. Build on existing proofs of concept like Collective Constitutional AI and Global D...
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National Economic & Social Council
Ireland’s independent advisory body bringing together social partners to advise government on strategic policy.

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Public deliberation and social licence are critical. The role of AI in society cannot be determined by experts alone; it must reflect the values and priorities of the public.
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Rob Sherman
Meta AI policy executive

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Technology better serves people when it's grounded in their feedback and expectations. This Forum reinforces how companies and researchers can collaborate to make sure AI agents are built to be responsive to the diverse needs of people who use them. ...
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Prince Sarpong
Finance professor and AI advisor

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The legitimacy of AI systems must rest not on their utility or performance, but on the collective processes that determine their existence, scope, and direction. What is needed is a model of epistemic democracy, and thus a political framework that ex...
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Nathan Sanders
Data scientist and democracy researcher

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I think lip service is probably the right expression to use here, because, you know, there are really interesting projects happening at some of the big AI development companies, on the one hand, to try and enforce rules on their own in a voluntary wa...
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Chloé Bakalar
AI ethicist and governance researcher

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Everybody needs to be part of the conversation. It shouldn’t simply be one person who has a multi-billion dollar company and gets to dictate that this is what’s right for all people. Especially when we’re talking about global technologies that are op...
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Jack Boeglin
University of Pennsylvania law fellow

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Another comparative advantage of legal alignment is that it can piggyback on the stakeholder involvement that already takes place when formulating legal rules and norms. To be sure, law is far from perfect in this respect; it too often fails to be tr...
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Tanusree Sharma
Penn State information sciences professor

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Current efforts to align AI with human values or governing AI models are largely top-down, controlled by big tech corporations and institutions. Design and improvement decisions may be based on surveying or collecting opinions from users, but these m...
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Pedro Sánchez
Prime Minister of Spain

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The direction of AI is currently determined by a small group of companies [...] We are seeing the construction of an oligarchy that responds solely to its own interests. The governance of artificial intelligence should be in the hands of the people, ...
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Anthony Aguirre
Physicist; Future of Life cofounder

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Time is running out. [...] The only thing likely to stop AI companies barreling toward superintelligence is for there to be widespread realization among society at all its levels that this is not actually what we want.
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Divya Siddarth
Founder and Executive Director of the Collective Intelligence Project; researcher on democratic AI governance and public participation in AI development

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First, we identify key points in the AI development process — from data collection to training to deployment — where decisions are about values, not just technical specs. Public insight is crucial at those stages. This includes the model’s “constitut...
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Yoshua Bengio
AI Pioneer, Turing Award winner

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But in the future, who should decide where to draw the line and how to weigh the pros and cons? CEOs of companies or democratically chosen governments? The answer should be obvious if you believe in democracy.
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Audrey Tang
Former Taiwan digital affairs minister

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Power to shape a shared vision of AI should not be exclusive to a handful of companies or economies. Collective intelligence processes democratise knowledge and serve as a powerful catalyst for bolstering mutual understanding.
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OpenAI
AI research organization

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No single person or institution should define how an ideal AI should behave for everyone. To fulfill our mission of ensuring that AGI benefits all of humanity, OpenAI needs to build systems that reflect the wide range of values and priorities of all ...
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Michele Gilman
Law professor on democracy and technology

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Public participation is a democratic right. Affected people do not need to know how to build an algorithm to have an opinion on how automated decision-making systems should (or should not) affect their lives. The public and private entities that adop...
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Rayid Ghani
Machine learning and public policy professor

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Because an AI system requires us to define exactly 1) what we want to optimize it for, 2) which mistakes are costlier (financially or socially) than others, and 3) by how much, it forces us to make these ethical and societal values explicit. [...] On...
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Flavio du Pin Calmon
Harvard electrical engineering professor

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I would think that there are certain basic norms that, from a personal perspective, you would expect an AI to satisfy, like avoiding harm, non-discrimination and so on. But while there are some global norms that might be enforced, the question that w...
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James S. Fishkin
Director of the Deliberative Democracy Lab at Stanford University; pioneer of Deliberative Polling

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By actively involving the public in shaping AI agent behavior, we're [...] ensuring these powerful tools align with societal values.
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Baobao Zhang
Political scientist studying AI governance

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Key decisions about the future of AI are almost exclusively made behind closed doors by powerful individuals. What if the general public had a say in how AI systems are developed and deployed? [...] The majority of participants want governmental agen...
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Shannon Vallor
Philosopher of AI, Edinburgh

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Just as when Jonas wrote at the height of the Cold War, today the security of the human family hangs on our capacity for wise self-governance and collective political reason in service of shared values. Yet we believe in these things with far less si...
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