Co-facilitators appointed to lead GDC-related process on defining AI Scientific Panel and Global Dialogue

As a follow-up to the Global Digital Compact (GDC), the President of the General Assembly appointed the Permanent Representatives of Costa Rica and Spain to the UN as co-facilitators for the intergovernmental process and consultations to identify the terms of reference and modalities for the establishment and functioning of the Independent International Scientific Panel on AI and the Global Dialogue on AI Governance, for adoption by the General Assembly.

Through the GDC, UN member states committed to:

(a) Establish, within the United Nations, a multidisciplinary Independent International Scientific Panel on AI with balanced geographic representation to promote scientific understanding through evidence-based impact, risk and opportunity assessments, drawing on existing national, regional and international initiatives and research networks;

(b) Initiate, within the United Nations, a Global Dialogue on AI Governance involving Governments and all relevant stakeholders which will take place in the margins of existing relevant United Nations conferences and meetings (paragraph 56).