U.N. panel warns concentrated training data risks bias; calls for data justice and interoperable governance

May 6, 2025

A high-level U.N. panel on data governance said major AI training sets are heavily skewed toward North America and Western Europe, urged capacity building and data justice, and tasked a multi-stakeholder working group to craft governance approaches that preserve rights while enabling interoperable data flows.

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A U.N. panel convened at Action Day focused on data governance for artificial intelligence and warned that geographic and cultural concentration of training data risks producing systems that do not serve the majority of the world's population.

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