International Congress for the Governance of Artifical Intelligence (ICGAI)

The ICGAI was convened by the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs and the World Technology Network, with participation of the City of Prague, in association with many other prominent partners. In the face of the pandemic, the large-scale in-person event planned for April 2020 and then May 2021 in Prague evolved into a high-level virtual gathering (with two extraordinary events held in Spring 2021 - which can be viewed on the ICGAI website; read further below).

ICGAI brought together representatives of governments, industry, international organizations, universities, research centers, leaders of underserved nations and communities, and other stakeholders in the AI space. It is a collaborative initiative directed at establishing an agile and comprehensive governance framework for artificial intelligence. Balancing the need for innovation, competition and cooperation, while minimizing risks and undesirable societal consequences poses a daunting international challenge. The framework that are developing together must accommodate input from the various stakeholders, function as a trusted good-faith broker, monitor developments, flag concerns and explore creative means to manage issues through engineering, ethics, and/or oversight.  

The ICGAI focus is upon ensuring that a broadly inclusive, cooperative, trustworthy, robust and effective approach to the international governance of AI can be forged, and not upon where the various tasks fulfilled by that network are located.  We are hopeful that all parties can work together, and that ICGAI is viewed as a forum for cooperatively addressing daunting implementation challenges.  

To learn more (and the view the video recordings of the ICGAI webcasts), please visit the ICGAI website.