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In your opinion, what outcomes would make the first Global Dialogue on AI Governance a success?

A successful first Global Dialogue on AI Governance would produce a concise, actionable roadmap that translates high‑level commitments into time‑bound deliverables, clear responsibilities, and measurable milestones for the next 12–24 months. It should secure concrete capacity‑building pledges—expanded access to compute, data, and technical training for low‑ and middle‑income countries—backed by specific technical assistance and shared infrastructure arrangements. Participants should agree on a path to establish a pooled financing mechanism or "Global Fund for AI," with initial resource mobilization targets, governance principles, and transparent allocation criteria to support safety audits, inclusive research, and equitable deployment. The Dialogue must endorse a prioritized standards and interoperability agenda—targeting transparency, testing protocols, model evaluation, and human oversight—with a timetable for pilot projects and cross‑border technical cooperation to reduce regulatory fragmentation. Human‑rights protections and accountability must be embedded as non‑negotiable elements, including commitments to adopt model legal clauses, redress mechanisms, and reporting templates that operationalize international norms. To ensure momentum, the Dialogue should create a multistakeholder follow‑up mechanism—a lightweight secretariat or tracking dashboard—with clear indicators, annual reporting, and an escalation pathway into the UN system for unresolved gaps. Finally, success requires demonstrable inclusivity: meaningful participation from the Global South, civil society, labor, and technical communities, and explicit measures to amplify underrepresented voices. Together, these outcomes would convert rhetoric into coordinated action, align diverse initiatives around shared priorities, and lay the institutional and financial foundations needed to govern AI responsibly and equitably.

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?

  • Safe, secure and trustworthy AI
  • Protection and promotion of human rights
  • AI capacity-building
  • Transparency, accountability, and human oversight

Please briefly explain your selection.

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These four priorities were chosen because they form a mutually reinforcing foundation for responsible, equitable AI governance. Prioritizing safe, secure and trustworthy AI focuses attention on reducing systemic risks, establishing rigorous testing and incident-response protocols, and aligning incentives for developers and deployers to prioritize safety over speed. Centering protection and promotion of human rights ensures that governance frameworks are anchored in internationally recognized norms-privacy, non-discrimination, freedom of expression, and access to remedy-so that technological progress does not entrench harms or exacerbate inequality. Emphasizing AI capacity-building addresses the stark asymmetry in technical resources and expertise between high-income and low- and middle-income countries; without targeted investments in compute access, data stewardship, skills development, and institutional capabilities, global rules will be ineffective or exclusionary. Finally, insisting on transparency, accountability, and human oversight creates the operational levers needed to make rules meaningful: explainability and auditability enable oversight, clear liability and redress pathways deter abuse, and mandated human-in-the-loop controls preserve agency in high-risk contexts. Together these priorities balance prevention, rights protection, inclusion, and enforceability. They are pragmatic: they can be translated into concrete, time-bound commitments such as safety testing standards, model-risk assessments, capacity-building partnerships, funding pledges, reporting templates, and pilot audits. They are political: they build common ground across states, civil society, and industry by focusing on shared risks and shared responsibilities. They are ethical: they place human dignity and equitable participation at the center of governance. Selecting these four areas therefore maximizes the chance that international cooperation will produce durable, implementable outcomes rather than aspirational statements. To operationalize them, the Dialogue should prioritize measurable indicators, short-term pilots, shared technical repositories, transparent funding commitments, and a light-touch multistakeholder monitoring mechanism that reports annually and escalates unresolved risks to relevant international bodies for coordinated action and sustained capacity investments over time.

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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Yes. Several cross-cutting and emerging issues are not fully captured by the listed themes but are critical to durable, equitable governance. 1)concentrations of power and market structure. Governance that ignores the economic dominance of a few firms risks creating rules that entrench monopolies, limit competition, and concentrate control over compute, data, and model development. Policies should include competition remedies, data portability, and measures to prevent gatekeeping of foundational models. 2), critical infrastructure and systemic risk. AI is increasingly embedded in energy, finance, health, and communications; failures or coordinated attacks could cascade. Governance must treat high-dependence sectors differently, mandate resilience testing, and require sectoral contingency planning and cross-sector incident-response protocols. 3) dual-use and export controls. The line between beneficial and harmful capabilities is porous. International frameworks for responsible export, licensing, and controlled dissemination of high-risk models and tooling are needed, balanced with research openness and scientific collaboration. 4), environmental and resource impacts. Compute-intensive models have measurable carbon, water, and mineral footprints. Sustainable procurement standards, lifecycle accounting for models, and incentives for energy-efficient architectures should be integrated into governance. 5) labor, economic transition, and social protection. AI will reshape jobs unevenly; governance must pair deployment with active labor policies, retraining, social safety nets, and mechanisms to capture productivity gains for broad public benefit. 6)standards for model provenance and supply-chain integrity**. Verifiable provenance, tamper-evident model lineage, and secure supply-chain practices reduce fraud, poisoning, and misuse. Finally,science-policy interfaces and horizon scanning. Rapid capability growth requires continuous, independent technical assessment, anticipatory regulation, and funded foresight to surface emergent risks before they become crises. Addressing these cross-cutting issues alongside the listed themes will make governance more anticipatory, equitable, and resilient.

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.

In India and the broader South Asian region, governance gaps in the four priority areas are producing both acute risks and clear openings for leadership. The most significant challenges are: uneven capacity and infrastructure—limited access to high‑performance compute, curated datasets, and technical expertise concentrates development and oversight in a few firms and countries; regulatory fragmentation—patchwork rules across ministries and states create compliance uncertainty and enforcement gaps; weak operational accountability—limited audit capacity, sparse redress mechanisms, and unclear liability pathways make harms hard to detect and remedy; and human‑rights trade‑offs—surveillance, biased systems, and opaque public‑sector deployments threaten privacy, nondiscrimination, and civic freedoms. These challenges are amplified by market concentration, supply‑chain opacity, and the environmental footprint of large models, which together raise systemic‑risk and equity concerns. At the same time, there are tangible opportunities. India's large talent pool, vibrant startup ecosystem, and strong research institutions can anchor regional capacity‑building hubs for model evaluation, safety testing, and open tooling. Public digital infrastructure (Aadhaar, UPI) and active e‑governance programs offer testbeds for human‑centric procurement standards and model‑risk assessments if paired with robust oversight. Multistakeholder partnerships can mobilize donor and private finance to seed shared compute and data commons, lowering entry barriers for universities and regulators. There is scope to pilot interoperable transparency and audit frameworks that other middle‑income countries could adopt, positioning the region as a standards exporter rather than a passive rule‑taker. To convert opportunity into impact requires short‑term, measurable steps: targeted compute and training grants; mandated provenance and audit trails for public procurements; model‑risk assessment requirements for high‑impact systems; and a regional secretariat to coordinate capacity, funding, and incident response. These moves would reduce asymmetries, strengthen rights protections, and make governance both practical and scalable.

What role can the AI Dialogue play in advancing international cooperation on AI governance?

The AI Dialogue should serve as a sustained multistakeholder platform that converts principles into a time‑bound roadmap, mobilizes pooled resources and shared technical capacity, and pilots interoperable standards for testing, provenance, and audits; it should embed human‑rights and accountability safeguards into procurement and regulation, create a light multistakeholder secretariat or dashboard to track progress and escalate systemic risks, and commission continuous horizon‑scanning and independent technical assessments so policy keeps pace with capability growth—turning a one‑off diplomatic exchange into a practical engine for coordinated, equitable, and durable international governance.

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?

  • The AI Dialogue should build on existing UN processes, multilateral forums, standards bodies, development banks, open‑science communities, and civil‑society networks to create coherence across fragmented efforts
  • its added value lies in convening diverse stakeholders around a time‑bound roadmap, translating technical standards into policy‑ready pilots, and mobilizing targeted finance and shared technical capacity for compute, data, and training
  • by promoting interoperable building blocks for testing, provenance, and audits, operationalizing human‑rights protections through model clauses and procurement requirements, and maintaining rapid horizon‑scanning with a light secretariat, the Dialogue can accelerate measurable, equitable governance outcomes at scale.

How can different stakeholders contribute to the AI Dialogue? Please share recommendations for the format and structure of the AI Dialogue.

  • States should commit political leadership and regulatory clarity
  • industry must share technical roadmaps, fund pilots, and open interfaces for independent testing
  • civil society and labor should bring rights‑based scrutiny, impact evidence, and community perspectives
  • academia and standards bodies provide independent evaluation, benchmarks, and interoperable norms
  • development banks and philanthropies mobilize targeted finance for shared compute, training, and regional hubs
  • and affected communities and SMEs must be resourced to participate meaningfully. The Dialogue's structure should be lean and action‑oriented: a short plenary for political alignment, parallel technical working groups (safety, standards, capacity, human rights, finance) with clear deliverables and timelines, and regional nodes to ensure geographic balance and feed local priorities into global deliberations. A light multistakeholder secretariat should track progress via a public dashboard, coordinate pilot projects, manage a small rapid‑response fund for capacity gaps, and publish annual scorecards against a time‑bound roadmap. Decision‑making should combine consensus on core principles with fast‑track pilots and mutual recognition of interoperable standards, while an escalation pathway links unresolved systemic risks to UN or sectoral bodies. Built‑in transparency, funded participation for Global South actors, and predefined metrics for success will ensure the Dialogue moves from statements to measurable, equitable outcomes.

Which voices, communities, or perspectives are currently underrepresented in global discussions on AI governance? How could they be included?

  • Many important voices remain underrepresented in global AI governance—particularly stakeholders from the Global South (including regional and local governments), Indigenous peoples and marginalized linguistic communities, women and gender minorities, youth and informal‑sector workers, labor unions, small and medium enterprises, disability advocates, frontline public‑service practitioners (health, education, justice), independent researchers outside elite labs, and community groups directly affected by AI deployments—and inclusion requires deliberate, resourced design choices: fund and guarantee paid participation and travel stipends for Global South and civil‑society delegates
  • create regional nodes and rotating chairs to surface local priorities
  • mandate translation, accessible formats, and culturally appropriate consultation methods
  • establish funded fellowships and technical secondments that place regulators and civil society in labs and vice versa
  • require participatory impact assessments and community‑led pilot projects as preconditions for public procurement
  • set quotas for labor and affected‑community representation in working groups
  • support open data, shared compute, and capacity grants for smaller research teams
  • and build transparent mechanisms for sustained engagement—longer timelines, predictable funding, and public reporting—so underrepresented actors can engage meaningfully, influence outcomes, and hold decision makers accountable

What innovative engagement formats could most effectively foster meaningful and dynamic engagement during the AI Dialogue?

  • To foster meaningful, dynamic engagement during the AI Dialogue, organizers should combine interactive, participatory formats that blend policy, technical, and lived‑experience perspectives: short plenary provocations followed by facilitated deep‑dive labs where mixed teams of regulators, engineers, civil society, labor, and affected communities co‑design pilot projects and policy prototypes
  • rotating regional micro‑summits that feed local priorities into global sessions
  • problem‑focused hackathons and red‑team exercises that surface technical risks and mitigation pathways in real time
  • policy sprints that produce model clauses, procurement templates, and audit checklists within defined timeboxes
  • citizen juries and deliberative panels that gather informed public input on trade‑offs and acceptable risk thresholds
  • funded fellowships and secondments that embed regulators in labs and technologists in public agencies for hands‑on capacity exchange
  • a public, interactive dashboard and living repository for pilots, standards, and funding opportunities to enable transparency and matchmaking
  • modular side‑events for SMEs, Indigenous groups, and language communities with guaranteed speaking slots and travel stipends
  • rapid‑response expert rosters to advise on emergent incidents
  • and blended virtual‑in‑person formats with multilingual facilitation and accessible materials to widen participation. Each format should be outcome‑oriented, with clear deliverables, timelines, and evaluation metrics, and supported by funded participation for underrepresented actors. By prioritizing co‑creation, iterative pilots, and sustained capacity exchange rather than one‑off presentations, these formats will accelerate practical, equitable solutions, build mutual trust across sectors, and ensure the Dialogue produces implementable governance tools that can be scaled and adapted globally. Organizers should also mandate public reporting, annual scorecards, and independent evaluations of pilots
  • create mentorship networks linking established labs with emerging teams
  • run open calls for challenge grants focused on safety, inclusion, and sustainability
  • and institutionalize pathways for successful pilots to be adopted by regional bodies and development banks, ensuring that promising innovations receive the financing and policy support needed for durable, scaled impact.

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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Effective AI governance combines practical policies, operational practices, and enabling platforms: mandatory model risk assessments and algorithmic impact assessments for high-risk systems; procurement rules that require provenance, audit trails, explainability, and third-party testing for vendors; independent, regular algorithmic audits and red-teaming exercises to surface vulnerabilities; regulatory sandboxes and pilot programs that let regulators and innovators test rules in controlled environments; data trusts and federated learning arrangements that enable shared research while protecting privacy and local control; open standards, model cards, and provenance registries that improve transparency and interoperability; certification schemes and conformity assessment bodies for safety, security, and energy efficiency; clear liability rules and accessible redress mechanisms to ensure accountability; pooled financing vehicles and regional compute hubs to close capacity gaps and fund public interest research; multistakeholder oversight boards and funded civil-society fellowships to amplify underrepresented voices; rapid incident-reporting frameworks and cross-sector contingency plans for systemic risks; export-control frameworks calibrated for dual-use capabilities; public dashboards and annual scorecards to track progress against time-bound commitments; and continuous horizon-scanning units that feed independent technical assessments into policy cycles. Together, these approaches turn high-level principles into measurable, scalable actions that reduce harm, promote inclusion, and enable responsible innovation.