Hub's Senior Advisor Recommendations for Modular Multistakeholder Governance at upcoming AI Action Summit

Constance de Leusse, senior advisor of the PSIA Tech & Global Affairs Innovation Hub and Chris Riley, executive director of the Data Transfer Initiative are cosigning a column for TechPolicy.press dedicated to the success factors of the upcoming AI Action Summit.

In a context of heightening of regional and global tensions, in which global governance is increasingly dominated by transactional agreements, steering away from multilateral consensus-making processes, Constance de Leusse and Chris Riley advocate for the adoption of a modular multistakeholder approach to ensure the Summit leads to actionable and impactful measures.

Drawing from the two open consultations on AI governance carried out by Sciences Po, The Future Society, CNNum, the AI & Society Institute (ENS-PSL), and Make.org, they make the case for assessment and compliance mechanisms that meaningfully involve civil society organizations in the creation and evaluation of legal frameworks, and call for concrete policies that are strongly supporting interoperability and data portability.