The UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence (AIAB) published an interim report on Governing AI for Humanity in December 2023. The initial proposal aimed to strengthen the international governance of AI by carrying out seven critical functions, which would contribute to reaching the Sustainable Development Goals. As part of its global consultation with stakeholders, the AIAB will convene several ‘deep dive’ sessions on specific topics, themes, or sectors with relevant experts between March and June 2024. The objective of the deep dives is to include more voices in the process, review opportunities, enablers, challenges and risks of AI in each issue area, with a view to informing proposals on how to govern AI for the good of humanity, which is the central question of the AIAB process.
On 13 May 2024, our Executive Director, Anita Gurumurthy, was invited by the AIAB to participate in one such consultative meeting on the topic: Governance of AI and Data.
She and our Research Associate, Merrin Muhammed Ashraf submitted an input titled, ‘Data Considerations for the UN AI Advisory Body’s Report: Governing AI for Humanity,’ highlighting the need for a differntiated data sharing regime, controls on appropriate access to global data public to prevent free-riding and consolidation of intellectual monopolies, guarantees to recognize the sovereignty of communities from whom data is aggregated and mechanisms for equitable benefit-sharing, and measures against the misuse of Intellectual Property regimes.
Read the submission here.
View IT for Change’s complete response to the AIAB Report here.