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International institution

An intergovernmental or multi-stakeholder body that coordinates across borders, produces shared assessment, and determines who is represented in global governance.

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source-assertionConfidence: highContestability: medium

No single level of governance can solve the whole problem: national and regional action is crucial, but the transboundary nature of AI requires global coordination.

Our reading: The report argues for a global approach; whether that requires new institutions or coordination of existing ones is contested within and beyond the report.

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Governing AI for Humanity: Final Report

Executive summary, para. ix (p. 7)

The development, deployment and use of AI cannot be left to markets alone; national governments and regional organizations are described as crucial, but the transboundary structure and application of the technology is said to necessitate a global approach.

Scope note: An advisory body report representing a majority consensus of its members in their personal capacity. It is not a UN member-state decision. Page locators refer to the PDF's printed page numbers.

Passage checked 2026-09-06 · un-hlab-global-approach

source-assertionConfidence: highContestability: low

International AI governance initiatives leave most countries out: seven countries participate in all of seven sampled initiatives while 118 participate in none.

Our reading: The sample is seven non-UN initiatives chosen by the advisory body and counts endorsement of intergovernmental issuances; membership through the EU or African Union alone was not counted.

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Governing AI for Humanity: Final Report

Executive summary, para. xiv (p. 8); section 3.A 'Representation gaps', paras. 63–65 and figure 8 (pp. 42–43)

Looking at seven prominent non-UN AI governance initiatives, the report finds seven countries party to all of them and 118 countries party to none, primarily in the global South. It calls these representation gaps a problem because the technology is global and comprehensive in its impact.

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Chile’s national AI policy says Latin America has been under-represented in setting international AI principles and lacks sovereign high-performance compute.

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Política Nacional de Inteligencia Artificial (Actualización 2024)

Section 3.2, “Articulación Internacional”, p. 11; Section I, p. 3

Emerging countries, especially in Latin America and the Caribbean, have had little part in setting AI principles, a discussion concentrated in the Global North; the region also lacks sovereign high-performance compute.

Scope note: Adopted by decree; published in the Diario Oficial. Quotes are in Spanish; the passage summary is a translation.

Passage checked 2026-10-09 · chile-global-north-participation

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Provenance

Governing AI for Humanity: Final Report
United Nations High-level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence · report · publication date not recorded · Final report, September 2024 (eISBN 9789211067873)
An advisory body report representing a majority consensus of its members in their personal capacity. It is not a UN member-state decision. Page locators refer to the PDF's printed page numbers.
un-hlab-governing-ai · Last checked 2026-09-06 · claims and passages
Política Nacional de Inteligencia Artificial (Actualización 2024)
Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología, Conocimiento e Innovación, Chile · guidance · published 2025-01-28 · Decreto N° 12 (2024)
Adopted by decree; published in the Diario Oficial. Quotes are in Spanish; the passage summary is a translation.
chile-ai-policy-2024 · Last checked 2026-10-09 · claims and passages

Cross-cutting tests

Levels

International

Diagnostic questions this concept helps answer

Relations in the model

International institution — conditions who shapes → Broadly shared benefit
Mapping: contested
Broadly shared benefit
Benefits are shaped by the bodies that set terms; when 118 countries are party to none of the sampled initiatives, the distribution of benefit is decided without them.
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Passage summaries are paraphrases, not quotations. Open the source to read the full passage.
Governing AI for Humanity: Final Report (opens in a new tab)
Executive summary, para. xiv (p. 8); section 3.A 'Representation gaps', paras. 63–65 and figure 8 (pp. 42–43)
Looking at seven prominent non-UN AI governance initiatives, the report finds seven countries party to all of them and 118 countries party to none, primarily in the global South. It calls these representation gaps a problem because the technology is global and comprehensive in its impact.
Scope note: An advisory body report representing a majority consensus of its members in their personal capacity. It is not a UN member-state decision. Page locators refer to the PDF's printed page numbers.
Passage checked 2026-09-06 · un-hlab-representation
International institution — coordinates across → Regulator or public authority
Mapping: asserted
Regulator or public authority
National and regional authorities are described as crucial, but the transboundary technology is said to require a global approach that connects them.
Inspect evidence · 1 passage
Passage summaries are paraphrases, not quotations. Open the source to read the full passage.
Governing AI for Humanity: Final Report (opens in a new tab)
Executive summary, para. ix (p. 7)
The development, deployment and use of AI cannot be left to markets alone; national governments and regional organizations are described as crucial, but the transboundary structure and application of the technology is said to necessitate a global approach.
Scope note: An advisory body report representing a majority consensus of its members in their personal capacity. It is not a UN member-state decision. Page locators refer to the PDF's printed page numbers.
Passage checked 2026-09-06 · un-hlab-global-approach

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