Ensuring good AI governance is one of the most important challenges of our time, requiring mutual learning based on lessons and best practices emerging from different jurisdictions around the world. This forum will bring together experiences and expertise from countries at different levels of technological and policy development, for a focused exchange to learn from each other and for dialogue with the private sector, academia and broader civil society .
UNESCO has made a fundamental contribution to the goal of effective and ethical AI governance by adopting an ambitious global standard – the Recommendation on AI Ethics in 2021, and lead its implementation by Member States through innovative tools and methodologies, such as the Readiness Assessment Methodology and the Ethical impact assessment.
Through the application of these tools, UNESCO is changing the economic model that drives AI, to develop a range of concrete and practical solutions and to ensure that AI outcomes are fair, inclusive, sustainable and non-discriminatory . The evidence obtained from this work, including a comprehensive and multi-dimensional diagnosis of the AI readiness of nearly fifty countries around the world, will also inform the Forum’s discussions.
