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Global Citizens Assembly on AI: Options and Design Considerations (Connected by Data)
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Summary
Connected by Data, in partnership with ISWE Foundation, produced an options paper exploring how a Global Citizens Assembly on AI could work, presenting five design templates for integrating citizen deliberation into global AI governance. The report was launched alongside the UN Summit of the Future in September 2024 and addresses how global publics can be meaningfully involved in AI governance decisions beyond industry and individual governments.
Key Points
- •Presents five template options for global citizen deliberation on AI: deliberative review of AI summits, independent global assembly, distributed dialogues, collective intelligence processes, and commissioning in existing deliberative forums.
- •Responds to UN High Level Advisory Board on AI's call for new institutional arrangements to govern AI 'for all, by all'.
- •Argues AI governance questions—from shared values to safety standards—cannot be answered by industry or governments alone; public deliberation is essential.
- •Draws on a design lab of in-depth interviews and workshops conducted in mid-2024, providing empirically grounded design considerations.
- •Connects to the Coalition for a Global Citizens Assembly's plans for a permanent assembly to address humanity's greatest challenges.
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Connected by data | Options for a Global Citizens Assembly on AI
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 a permanent Global Citizens’ Assembly, to address humanity’s greatest challenges.
How could a Global Citizens Assembly on AI work? That’s the question we’ve explored, producing an options paper launched alongside the UN Summit of the Future in September 2024.
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.
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Global Citizen Deliberation on Artificial Intelligence: Options and design considerations
Tim Davies
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Sep 18, 2024
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This report explores how global citizen deliberation, particularly drawing on the concept of a global citizens’ assembly, could and should shape the future of artificial intelligence. Drawing on an extended design lab of in-depth interviews and workshops that took place in mid-2024, it presents a series of options that illustrate a variety of opportunities to bring the voices of those affected by AI development and deployment into decision-making spaces, through processes that can deliver informed and inclusive dialogue.
The landscape of AI governance is rapidly evolving. There are open questions at many levels, from setting shared values and visions to guide AI development, to designing specific governance mechanisms or safety standards, and shaping the models and rules for individual and localized applications. There is growing consensus that these questions cannot be answered by the technology industry or individual governments alone. Global publics must be meaningfully involved.
The concept of a global citizens’ assembly is a powerful one: inviting individuals from across the globe to join in processes where they have access to expert insights, opportunities to learn, and facilitated space to deliberate together, bringing diverse perspectives and experiences to bear on questions of global importance. In this report we address how established and emerging sites of global AI development and governance can integrate citizen deliberation, setting out five template options: deliberative review of AI summits and scientific reports; an independent global assembly on AI; a series o
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