An official Digital@UNGA 2026 Affiliate Session, “Governing AI in the Real World: From Frontier Innovation to Global Action,” was held on September 23 during the 81st United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York. Hosted at the United Nations University Centre for Policy Research (UNU-CPR), the session brought together experts from international or...
On July 6, 2026, the Institute for AI International Governance (I-AIIG) at Tsinghua University and the Simon Institute for Longterm Governance (SI) co-hosted the official side event “Safe, Secure and Trustworthy AI: Bridging Global Evidence and Local Realities through Scientific Collaboration” at the inaugural UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance in Gene...
The UNU Global AI Network is pleased to launch the AI for SDGs — Global Youth AI Future Innovation Competition, an international science and technology innovation competition with the goals of empowering social innovation1, advancing yo...
The final competition of this year’s U&AI | AI for SDGs Youth Bootcamp, hosted by the Institute for AI International Governance of Tsinghua University (I-AIIG) and supported by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), was succes...
17 November, Beijing – Global youth from 14 teams put forward innovative AI solutions for advancing the Sustainable Development Goals on Tuesday at the online final competition of U&AI Camp, an international youth bootcamp. Launched in ...
An official Digital@UNGA 2026 Affiliate Session, “Governing AI in the Real World: From Frontier Innovation to Global Action,” was held on September 23 during the 81st United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York. Hosted at the Un...
On 5 August 2026, over 300 competitors from around the world attended a series of lectures and discussions on the Ethics of AI led by UNESCO-Uzbekistan Beruniy Prize Professor Virgílio Almeida and Professor Liang Zheng, representing I-AI...
On August 11, 2026, Kim Jin-dong, Minister for Economic Affairs at the Embassy of the Republic of Korea in China, and Sangyeol Shin, Minister-Counselor for Science and Technology, together with First Secretary Inah Baek, visited the Inst...
The launch of the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization (WAICO) in Shanghai on July 16, 2026, could become an important moment in the evolution of global AI governance. The new body is intended to promote international c...
A recent letter signed by 1,367 researchers and engineers at frontier AI labs – mainly OpenAI, Anthropic and Google Deepmind – points to a dangerous moment
The rapid evolution of AI has long outpaced human capabilities. From the United Nations' arduous adoption of the first global AI governance resolution to the upheaval of elections in multiple countries by deepfake-generated misinformatio...
Liang Zheng, said governance is not keeping pace with technological development and pointed to widening capability gaps between countries, as well as difficulties in building broader governance consensus.


Highlights•AI as automated respondents reduces citizen-initiated contact; learning-driven AI worsens the effect more than rule-driven AI.•Respondent image, channel, purpos...

Highlights•Examining public expectations and knowledge of AI through the theoretical lens of technological frames.•There are similarities and differences in the public’s ...

Highlights•AI adoption is a continuum rather than a dichotomous.•The underlying causes of global governmental AI adoption divide is explored.•Explainable Artificial Intel...