Deusto University

A successful first Global Dialogue on AI Governance should generate concrete, actionable outcomes grounded in human rights. It should establish a shared normative baseline to guide AI development and use, while advancing pathways for international regulatory alignment. From a research perspective, success also requires meaningful and sustained multistakeholder participation, explicitly including academic researchers who support and collaborate with civil society to ensure that evidence, critical analysis, and lived experiences inform decision-making. This is key to preventing technocratic or exclusionary governance models. Beyond immediate outputs, the Dialogue should foster deeper reflection on the role of AI in regulation itself—examining how AI reshapes legal frameworks, state responsibilities, and power relations, and how governance can remain adaptive, accountable, and rights-based in rapidly evolving contexts. Finally, it must include follow-up mechanisms with clear indicators and timelines to ensure implementation and enable continuous evaluation of impact.

• Protection and promotion of human rights
• Interoperability of governance approaches
• Social, economic, ethical, cultural, linguistic and technical implications of AI
• Safe, secure and trustworthy AI

The selected priorities reflect a human rights-centered and interdisciplinary approach to AI governance. Understanding the social, economic, ethical, cultural, and technical implications of AI is essential to address how these systems reproduce or amplify existing inequalities, particularly those affecting women and marginalized groups. Interoperability of governance approaches is critical in a transnational digital environment, where fragmented regulations risk creating gaps in protection and accountability. Coordinated frameworks can strengthen state responses and ensure more consistent safeguards across jurisdictions. The protection and promotion of human rights is the foundation of our engagement. AI governance must ensure that fundamental rights-including equality, privacy, and freedom of expression-are upheld in digital environments, particularly in the face of emerging harms such as technology-facilitated gender-based violence. From a research perspective, these priorities also highlight the importance of collaboration between academia and civil society. Academic research plays a key role in generating evidence, critical analysis, and policy-oriented insights that support civil society advocacy and ensure that governance frameworks are grounded in lived realities. Finally, these priorities open space for broader reflection on how AI is reshaping regulatory systems themselves, requiring adaptive, inclusive, and accountable governance models.