Shaping the AI Future: Ethical and Inclusive AI Governance for Youth and All (CSocD64 Side Event).

This side event explores ethical and inclusive AI governance to address AI-enabled risks affecting youth safety, well-being, and rights, and to advance practical, youth-centered solutions through multilateral cooperation.

Digital transformation has become integral to advancing social development and social justice, accelerating progress toward the 2030 Agenda and the commitments made in the Copenhagen Declaration of the 1995 World Social Summit. However, as highlighted in the Doha Political Declaration, uneven technological advancements between and within countries are reversing hard-won development gains and deepening inequalities, underscoring the need for coordinated, equitable, and inclusive approaches that ensure no one is left behind.

Objectives

Protecting Youth Dignity and Rights in Artificial Intelligence-Driven Environments This session will examine how AI-driven environments affect the dignity, rights, and autonomy of youth, who are often early adopters of new technologies yet remain among the least protected. Participants will explore emerging risks and discuss policies, safeguards, and design standards to better uphold youth rights. Examples may include integrating developmental science into AI policy, youth privacy protections, meaningful youth participation, and frameworks to prevent AI-facilitated exploitation.
Exchanging Best Practices for Ethical and Inclusive Artificial Intelligence The event will highlight effective approaches to ethical and inclusive AI by sharing practical solutions from diverse regions and sectors. Participants will engage in mutual learning around inclusive design, bias mitigation, safety-by-design interventions, education initiatives, and accountability mechanisms with demonstrated impact.
Advancing Multistakeholder and Global Artificial Intelligence Governance Recognizing the fragmented global AI governance landscape, this session will emphasize stronger coordination among governments, the private sector, civil society, academia, and the UN system. Discussions will focus on enhancing coherence in global AI governance while respecting local contexts and capacities. Examples may include multistakeholder cooperation models, cross-border knowledge-sharing platforms, shared core standards, and mechanisms to improve Global South representation.

Related  Documents: Concept Note.

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