The AI Governance We Want, Call to Action: Liability, Interoperability, Sustainability, & Labour

The Policy Network on AI (PNAI) builds upon previous discussions and the wealth of knowledge within the United Nation's Internet Governance Forum (IGF) community on issues relevant to AI and at the request of the IGF community. The Messages of the 17t Annual IGF meeting held in Addis Ababa conclude:

“IGF could be used as a platform for developing cooperation mechanisms on artificial intelligence. A policy network on artificial intelligence could be considered for the upcoming work streams in order to review the implementation of different principles with appropriate tools and metrics."

Since 2023 the team have presented an annual report on AI and related aspects of data governance. The recommendations of the report were discussed at a panel session as part of the 19 th annual IGF meeting in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

The discussion outlined the 2024 work conducted by PNAI highlighting key findings, sharing outcomes, and presenting policy recommendations on four key topics:

1. Liability as a mechanism for supporting AI accountability
2. Environmental sustainability within the Generative AI value chain
3. AI governance, interoperability, and good practices
4. Labour issues throughout AI’s life cycle

The DepHUB's Shamira Ahmed is a PNAI multistakeholder expert and co-lead of the PNAI Report.