The series of global summits that began in Bletchley Park in 2024 and continued this month in New Delhi illustrates a shifting narrative around artificial intelligence – from safety, to action, to impact. At the India AI Impact Summit, the first of these gatherings to be held outside an OECD country, the circle of participants contributing to the conversation expanded and diversified, with conversations around governance being grounded in real world context.
The Centre for Communications Governance (CCG) and the Global Network Initiative (GNI) were pleased to bring close to 50 Global Majority academic and civil society leaders to Delhi and curate two full-day events that platformed these perspectives and framed AI governance conversations around human rights. Through our Multistakeholder Approaches to Participation in AI Governance (MAP-AI) project, we brought together more than 400 diverse stakeholders from across governments, industry, standards organisations, multilateral institutions, academic and civil society organisations to discuss the global implications of AI governance, unpack safety and trust, and the contextualization of AI infrastructure, with Global Majority leadership as a cross-cutting theme.
As we look ahead to the inaugural UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance and the next summit, both of which will take place in Switzerland, it is critical that these conversations continue to be informed by the voices and experiences of those who are most impacted by the development and diffusion of AI.