The AI and Global Governance programme addresses the critical challenges posed by emerging technologies and their impact on global governance. We provide valuable foresight, training, expert workshops and actionable policy recommendations to navigate the complex landscape of AI in the context of global governance and corporate strategy.
Our priorities:
Governance, Regulation, and Innovation, where we explore evolving AI regulatory frameworks and international legal regimes to examine their impact on AI innovation, deployment, and cross-border cooperation.
Global Security and Geopolitics, where we investigate the implications of AI on international and economic security, including cyber threats, military applications, export controls and international cooperation in critical technology.
Human Rights and Sustainable Development, where we address the balance between AI-driven surveillance and privacy, the safeguarding of individual rights in digital environments, growing global inequalities, and the need for sustainable growth models.
Foresight Analysis, where we anticipate future trends, risks, and opportunities related to the medium and long-term impact of emerging technologies, enabling informed decision-making and strategic planning across the private and public sector.
Our services:
Across the four key research priorities, we are committed to delivering high-quality research through analyses, commentaries, policy briefs, and annual reports, as well as to fostering meaningful dialogue through conferences, trainings, and workshops.
Age of AI Podcast
The AI and Global Governance Programme’s flagship "Age of AI" podcast, an established platform for discussions with leading practitioners, scholars, and thinkers working at the intersection of artificial intelligence and politics, law, and society, provides listeners with insight into the latest research and developments.
AI Trainings
Our suite of training programs on AI and Global Governance, Global Sustainable Development, and Global Security, offers solutions for practitioners and researchers confronting a rapidly changing technological landscape.
We can also offer tailor-made programming that can be delivered onsite. Please reach out to education@globalgovernance.eu to find out more.
For more information, please contact:
Medlir Mema Ph.D
Head of Programme
Email: m.mema@globalgovernance.eu
Team
Publications
S8E4: Mihalis Kritikos on Governing AI
Chris talks with Mihalis Kritikos of the European Commission on Artificial Intelligence Ethics and Trustworthy Governance of AI. Mihalis sheds light on how he got started working on AI governance during the Covid-19 pandemic, the ethics of AI, the EU AI Act, and also AI surveillance in the workplace.
S8E3: How Ukraine uses AI to Fight Disinformation
Chris talks to Maya Sobchuk, GGI Non-Resident Fellow and Researcher at the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Tokyo about her work on AI and disinformation. In this episode Maya reflects on the history of Russian disinformation campaigns against Ukraine, disinformation in the aftermath of Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022, and how Ukraine has harnessed its AI know-how and innovation space to counter disinformation.
S8E2: Conflict Forecasting with Hannes Mueller
Medlir is joined by Dr. Hannes Mueller to discuss recent developments in conflict prevention. Specifically, we examine how artificial intelligence can help governments detect risk early, predict the likelihood of new conflicts, and prevent older ones from re-emerging.
S8E1: Cool New Things You Can Do with AI or: How YD Learned to Start Worrying and Love Long Context Windows
For our season opener, Young Diogenes has a chat with Chris and Medlir about some cool new things large language models can now do for us. Specifically, why some companies, like Google with Gemini, are choosing to concentrate on increasingly larger context windows (i.e., the size of the text, music, video prompt, etc., that the AI can parse). And why being able to load an entire book, a movie, or your entire life into the prompt and then have a conversation about these things, might be useful.
S7E8: Misinformation and Disinformation in the age of AI with Lukas Andriukaitis
Medlir asks Lukas Andriukaitis, Board member of Lithuania-based Civic Resilience Initiative (CRI), what it means to work and live at the frontier of the new misinformation / disinformation space. They discuss the current atmosphere in the region and beyond, in terms of threat of misinformation/disinformation. They consider both the benefits and the drawbacks of AI-enabled technologies as billions across the world prepare to cast their votes in 2024.
S7E7: The EU AI Act with Luca Bertuzzi
Luca Bertuzzi joins Medlir for a discussion on the EU AI Act passed by the European Parliament on March 13th. Among other things, they discuss the likely impact of the law on innovation and governance within the EU and abroad, as well as criticisms that the act fails to address concerns regarding human rights and civil liberties.
S7E6: The Politics and Governance of Big Data and AI with Andrej Zwitter and Oskar Gstrein
Andrej Zwitter and Oskar Gstrein share with Chris what they will be keeping an eye out for in the AI regulatory space in 2024. They also discuss their latest work on the politics and governance of big data and artificial intelligence and their newly published Handbook on the Governance Politics and Governance of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence. In this discussion Andrej and Oskar explore the EU AI Act and challenges that datafication and algorithmic logics pose for governance, privacy, and human agency, and ponder the question: what does it mean to stay human in the age of AI?
S7E5: AI and Military Technologies with Raluca Csernatoni and Marijn Hoijtink
Medlir sits down with Dr. Raluca Csernatoni and Dr. Marijn Hoijtink to discuss the escalating ‘innovation race’ among corporate giants. They discuss AI’s contribution to the rise in power of the private tech sector vs. the state, as well as the ‘existential threat’ and ‘superintelligence’ narratives around foundational AI models and how these shape specific socio-technical imaginaries of the future. They also dive into AI’s impact on geopolitical and military power, including Sino-American competition, and the rise of AI ‘nationalism’ or ‘sovereignty’.
S7E3: The Birth of Digital Human Rights with Rebekah Dowd
This week Medlir and our guest Rebekah Dowd, an academic, scholar, and author of The Birth of Digital Human Rights: Digitized Data Governance as a Human Rights Issue in the EU, explore how and why the EU became a leader in the realm of digital human rights.
