Global Dialogue on AI Governance
In plain wordsA yearly United Nations meeting, launched in 2025, where all countries — joined by companies, researchers and civil society — discuss how to cooperate on governing AI.
A standing United Nations forum, open to all member states with participation by other stakeholders, for discussing international cooperation on AI governance: sharing experiences and good practice, promoting interoperability between national approaches, and considering issues such as safety, human rights, capacity-building and the digital divide. It meets annually and receives the annual report of the Independent International Scientific Panel on AIIndependent International Scientific Panel on AI, prop. n.: A group of 40 independent experts set up by the United Nations in 2025 to give every country a shared, science-based picture of what AI can do, its risks and its benefits.. It was formally launched at a high-level meeting in New York on 25 September 2025; its first annual session took place in Geneva on 6–7 July 2026, and the second is planned for New York in 2027.
The ministry's AI envoy will present our national strategy at the Global Dialogue on AI Governance.
Origin
Proposed by the UN Secretary-General's High-level Advisory Body on AI (2024) and committed to in the Global Digital Compact, adopted at the Summit of the Future in September 2024; established, alongside the scientific panel, by General Assembly resolution 79/325 of 26 August 2025.
Usage note
Not a negotiating body: it drafts no treaty or binding rules. It complements narrower venues such as the AI Safety SummitAI Safety Summit, prop. n.: A series of international meetings of governments, AI companies and researchers, begun in England in 2023, to agree on how to handle the risks and benefits of the most advanced AI. series, the G7 Hiroshima AI ProcessG7 Hiroshima AI Process, prop. n.: An effort begun by the G7 group of wealthy democracies in Japan in 2023 that sets voluntary rules for companies building the most advanced AI, which now report publicly on how they follow them. and the OECD's Global Partnership on Artificial IntelligenceGlobal Partnership on Artificial Intelligence, prop. n.: An international group of countries, launched in 2020 and now run together with the OECD, that brings governments and experts together to put trustworthy AI into practice..
Related
- Independent International Scientific Panel on AIIndependent International Scientific Panel on AI, prop. n.: A group of 40 independent experts set up by the United Nations in 2025 to give every country a shared, science-based picture of what AI can do, its risks and its benefits.
- AI governanceAI governance, n.: The rules, institutions and habits that shape how AI is built and used — from laws and treaties to technical standards and a company's own review processes.
- AI Safety SummitAI Safety Summit, prop. n.: A series of international meetings of governments, AI companies and researchers, begun in England in 2023, to agree on how to handle the risks and benefits of the most advanced AI.
- AI red linesAI red lines, n.: Limits on AI that would be forbidden worldwide no matter what — for example AI that copies itself without permission or controls nuclear weapons — which campaigners want governments to agree on.
- Global Partnership on Artificial IntelligenceGlobal Partnership on Artificial Intelligence, prop. n.: An international group of countries, launched in 2020 and now run together with the OECD, that brings governments and experts together to put trustworthy AI into practice.
Sources
- United Nations (2026). Independent International Scientific Panel on AI: Frequently Asked Questions. un.org/independent-international-scientific-panel-ai/en/faq
Defined in law or standards
UN General Assembly resolution A/RES/79/325 (26 August 2025)
Mentioned in
AI red linesAI red lines, n.: Limits on AI that would be forbidden worldwide no matter what — for example AI that copies itself without permission or controls nuclear weapons — which campaigners want governments to agree on., Global Digital CompactGlobal Digital Compact, prop. n.: A 2024 agreement among United Nations member countries setting shared goals for the digital world — closing digital divides, protecting rights online, governing data and AI — and creating new UN bodies on AI., Independent International Scientific Panel on AIIndependent International Scientific Panel on AI, prop. n.: A group of 40 independent experts set up by the United Nations in 2025 to give every country a shared, science-based picture of what AI can do, its risks and its benefits., Global Partnership on Artificial IntelligenceGlobal Partnership on Artificial Intelligence, prop. n.: An international group of countries, launched in 2020 and now run together with the OECD, that brings governments and experts together to put trustworthy AI into practice., High-level Advisory Body on Artificial IntelligenceHigh-level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence, prop. n.: A group of experts set up by the UN Secretary-General in 2023 to advise on governing AI worldwide; its 2024 report led to the UN's AI science panel and global dialogue.