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In your opinion, what outcomes would make the first Global Dialogue on AI Governance a success?
Universal agreement on ensuring Companies disclose their carbon footprint, source of rare metal they use, how they train their models (pay for fair use of other people's creations), use of human labour in verifying the model outputs, and how is diverse date included so AI models do not confirm existing biases
From your perspective, which of the following thematic areas identified by the General Assembly Resolution 79/325 for the AI Dialogue reflect your priorities for urgent action and active engagement?
- Protection and promotion of human rights
- Social, economic, ethical, cultural, linguistic and technical implications of AI
- Transparency, accountability, and human oversight
- Open-source software, open data and open AI models
Please briefly explain your selection.
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The harms of social media are coming out today, and AI is so much more harmful in echoing people's sentiments, so these harms should be openly discussed. Also the real cost of AI, what it costs in terms of resources, human labour, and jobs of real people who do the work that AI benefit of should be clearly known. Hence transparency and open source across all levels from hardware, software, data center is really important
In your opinion, are there any cross-cutting or emerging issues not captured by the listed themes above? If so, please explain.
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Sustainability and Green software
How are the governance gaps and related developments/advances in the thematic areas you selected above affecting your country, region, or sector? Please highlight the most significant challenges.
AI is effecting jobs at all levels and for younger population disproportionately. It's use also is using energy and resources at a level not known before, increasing the dependance of fossil fuel, which is effecting the economy by inflation and high prices, making everything unaffordable, and making furture of our children uncertain
What role can the AI Dialogue play in advancing international cooperation on AI governance?
AI should be treating at the level of Nuclear weapons, it should be regulated at a global level, otherwise it's role in wars (what happened at Iran school bombing) will only multiply. Even it's use as ammunation and kill the human race
What are some of the existing initiatives, partnerships, or mechanisms that the AI Dialogue should build upon or connect with, and what added value could the AI Dialogue bring?
Agentic AI foundation https://aaif.io/, Linux foundation AI https://lfaidata.foundation/, there should be also work done at City and county levels which give permission to these companies to put down these massive data centers with relaxed regulations in the name of development
How can different stakeholders contribute to the AI Dialogue? Please share recommendations for the format and structure of the AI Dialogue.
Different stakeholders and identify concerns, collate them into logical categories and then discuss them as individual items
Which voices, communities, or perspectives are currently underrepresented in global discussions on AI governance? How could they be included?
Global south, people who do not understand technology they are the people which are left out. One way to engage them is grass roots efforts through schools and health networks because these networks exist in most communities , so we can go to people where they anyway come and educate them and include them
What innovative engagement formats could most effectively foster meaningful and dynamic engagement during the AI Dialogue?
understand their why? why are they there in the AI dialogue, and also why are they in the AI space, and then see how the dialogue can contribute to their "why"? Not easy, takes a lot of work but is possible
Please share examples of policies, practices, platforms, or approaches that promote effective AI governance or offer concrete solutions to addressing its challenges.
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China has been regulating software and internet from the start, and still massive companies have come out of it. Although the government policies may not be the best, it can be treated as an example of how AI can be regulated, and still an economy can be built around it.