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Speakers at IGF 2025 push for stronger AI governance, human‑centered safeguards
Summary
At IGF 2025 opening sessions, UN officials, technologists and civil society urged concrete steps on AI governance: independent scientific review, ethical frameworks, data rights and limits on autonomous weapons.
Speakers at the Internet Governance Forum opening highlighted artificial intelligence as a central governance challenge and urged concrete international action on ethics, transparency and human rights.
United Nations Secretary‑General António Guterres said negotiations in New York were underway to establish "an independent international scientific panel on artificial intelligence" and a global dialogue on AI governance within the UN framework. He linked those negotiations to the Global Digital Compact and said broader…
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