Options for a Global Citizens Assembly on AI
A policy and practice design lab
The UN High Level Advisory Board on Artificial Intelligence is calling for new institutional arrangements to support the governance of AI that can deliver against the principle that AI should be governed “for all, by all”.
In parallel, the Coalition for a Global Citizens Assembly have launched plans for permanent Global Citizens’ Assembly, to address humanity’s greatest challenges.
How could a Global Citizens Assembly on AI work? That’s the question we’re setting out to explore, producing an options paper to be shared alongside the UN Summit of the Future in September 2024.
Get involved
Over May and June we’re carrying out a series of interviews, focus groups and workshops to explore:
- AI governance issues that a global citizens assembly could address;
- Design options for an inclusive global assembly including if and how emerging technologies can be used to support the process;
- Institutional structures and touch-points including possible organisational models and relationships for an assembly;
- Strategic choices and theories of change to ensure that an assembly gives citizens and communities a powerful voice in the governance of data and AI.
By the end of July we’ll produce a draft options paper for comment and feedback.
If you would like to get involved, please respond to our brief sign-up survey here, and we will be in touch.
About the team
This is a collaborative process hosted by Connected by Data, working in partnership with ISWE Foundation. It is organised as a design lab under our Growing Data Governance Communities grant from The Omidyar Network.
This project is being coordinated by Tim Davies and Claire Mellier.
We are building a small advisory / co-authors group to guide this work including:
- Kristophina Shilongo - Fellow, Connected by Data; Senior Tech Policy Fellow, Mozilla
- Others tbc.