UN Secretary-General Launches Advisory Board to Support AI Governance

📌 Announced by the UN Secretary-General, the board will link AI governance initiatives to support the 2024 Summit of the Future. 📌 Focus areas include international governance of AI, understanding AI risks and opportunities, and making preliminary recommendations. 📌 The board is gender-balanced, geographically diverse, and includes members from government, the private sector, and civil society. 📌 Its recommendations will feed into negotiations towards a proposed Global Digital Compact, focusing on harnessing AI benefits for all.