On September 23, 2026, the chief executives of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Hugging Face took seats at the UN Security Council. They were participating in a high-level briefing on artificial intelligence (AI) and international security convened by France during the General Assembly’s high-level week. French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot chaired the meeting. Yoshua Bengio, co-chair of […]
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Artificial intelligence is often described as a global race. In reality, very few countries are racing. In 2025, US institutions produced 59 notable AI models and Chinese institutions 35. More than 90% of prominent frontier models came from industry. The concentration is even starker underneath the models themselves. Nvidia supplies more than 60% of global […]
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The first Global Dialogue on AI Governance, convened in Geneva on July 6 and 7, 2026, is the UN’s flagship multistakeholder forum on artificial intelligence (AI). Together with its companion body—the Independent International Scientific Panel on AI—it forms the institutional core of a governance architecture rooted in the Pact for the Future and the Global […]
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In August 2025, the United Nations adopted a resolution forming the International Scientific Panel on AI (ISP-AI). This was the culmination of several years of work, beginning with the creation of the secretary-general’s AI Advisory Body in 2023. Two of the AI Advisory Body’s final recommendations—the ISP-AI and the creation of the Global Dialogues on […]
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For AI to be ethical and be a vehicle for the common good, it needs to eliminate any explicit and implicit biases, including on the gender front.
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Machine algorithms may amplify existing humanitarian violations.
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For peacekeeping, there is no escaping the digital revolution and transformation that is heading its way.
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The global submarine cable network needs to be governed and protected, but it also has risks and vulnerabilities, and the potential to spur new forms of tensions and conflicts.
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Peace operations, as well as humanitarian and development actors, are increasingly using technological means, which raises the question of how much of a “human touch” is still essential.
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The strategy offers valuable insights and raises important questions, without clear answers, that speak to core challenges that member states and multilateral organizations will ultimately need to tackle head-on.
