Policy brief: the creation of a G20 coordinating committee for the governance of artificial intelligence
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Policy brief: the creation of a G20 coordinating committee for the governance of artificial intelligence Thorsten Jelinek1 · Wendell Wallach2 · Danil Kerimi3 Received: 9 July 2020 / Accepted: 24 September 2020 © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Abstract This policy brief proposes a group of twenty (G20) coordinating committee for the governance of artificial intelligence (CCGAI) to plan and coordinate on a multilateral level the mitigation of AI risks. The G20 is the appropriate regime complex for such a metagovernance mechanism, given the involvement of the largest economies and their highest political representatives. Other regime complexes and international organizations, which also focus on AI governance, tend to either lack such political power or exclude major rivalry countries. However, such inclusive centrality is necessary to counter the fragmentation of the existing cyber regime complex and effectively coordinate the mitigation of AI risks on a global level. Therefore, the G20 CCGAI is proposed to complement and strengthen polycentric governance as well as AI governance networks. CCGAI’s metagovernance function is presented as a task intended to institutionalize linkages between the CCGAI and relevant actors with the G20 complex and the broader AI and cyber regime complex. While the policy brief outlines the landscape of AI risks and proposes an agenda with AI governance challenges, the focus is on the functional and organizational features of the CCGAI and how such chartered committee can foster international collaboration. Without such global coordination, AI governance risks becoming primarily an instrument of strategic competition and rivalry. An earlier and shorter version of this policy brief was included in the Think 20 (T20) communique as a recommendation to the G20 in 2020 (Jelinek Global Solutions Initiative Foundation, 2020). The T20 is a G20 engagement group that incubates and proposes policy ideas. Keywords G20 coordinating committee · T20 policy brief · Artificial intelligence · Ethics · Governance · Multilateralism · Polycentricity · Governance networks
1 Introduction There is an emerging structure based on polycentric governance as well as governance networks concerning the responsible development and use of artificial intelligence * Thorsten Jelinek [email protected] Wendell Wallach [email protected] Danil Kerimi [email protected] 1
Senior Fellow and Europe Director, Taihe Institute, Berlin, Germany
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Chair Technology and Ethics Research Group, Yale University Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, New Haven, USA
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Head of the Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution China, World Economic Forum, Beijing, China
(AI). The objective of those national and international governance approaches is to mitigate the risks associated with AI while realizing AI’s opportunities that benefit society. This objective has been broadly summarized as an AI principle of responsibility or human centeredness. While polycentric governance mainly
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