🌍 "Rule-making at a planetary level." 🌍
That’s how Jeannette Gorzala, Founder of ACT AI NOW, framed it, and if there was one session that captured the urgency, complexity, and possibility of governing Artificial Intelligence, it was this one.
Power, Policy, and Performance: Who Controls the Future of AI? Was a panel that created a moment of clarity in a fragmented global landscape.
Joined by Zarinah Agnew (The Collective Intelligence Project), Thomas Hurd (Zeki Data), Lucia Velasco (United Nations), and moderator Fiona J McEvoy (YouTheData.com), this high-level conversation tackled what so many of us have been circling:
❓ Who writes the rules for AI, and who gets left out? ❓
This panel was nothing short of extraordinary. Lucia Velasco reminded us that last September, the United Nations took a historic step, pushing forward a global agenda, the need for three mechanisms that will shape AI governance at a international scale:
💡 An independent expert panel on Artificial Intelligence
💡 A permanent global dialogue on governance
💡 A real plan to fund capacity in the Global South, because over half the world still has no meaningful voice in these systems
“What we cannot measure, we cannot manage.” says Jeannette Gorzala
Her words were sharp, clear, and deeply human. She called for tools that help us track AI’s potential and its risks, grounded in real-world data, not political timelines.
Zarinah Agnew made it plain: “Innovation doesn’t have to come at the expense of exclusion.”
Thomas Hurd reminded us that “Innovation still starts with a human idea.”
And the takeaway was impossible to miss: fragmentation is expensive; ethically, economically, and geopolitically.
We’re in an arms race for talent, compute, and regulation. And yet the real power lies in collaboration, inclusion, and planetary-scale thinking.
Each speaker on this panel brought rare clarity, urgency, and depth to the global conversation on AI governance. Their leadership, insight, and conviction reminded us that shaping the future of AI is a deeply sociotechnical challenge, one rooted in human values, systems, and global coordination.
The world is genuinely better for having voices like these guiding the future.
Their work sets a powerful standard for what responsible, collaborative, and future-ready AI governance can, and must, be!
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