Panelists call for AI guardrails and multilateral coordination at UN

As the session drew toward a close, panelists returned to AI governance and called for coordinated regulation and multilateral rules. Pedro Sánchez said the 21st century requires limits on private control of powerful tools and supported an agenda of competition, regulation and redistribution. "We need regulation," he said, and referenced Joseph Stiglitz's prescription for competition and redistribution.

Deputy Secretary‑General Amina Mohammed noted the Security Council meeting on AI and said the UN is now bringing governance and science into the discussion: "We were asking... inviting all those tech companies to come to the UN for the GA... they were not coming, but they're here now and they're in the Security Council." Panelists urged that countries adopt domestic regulations this year where possible and that multilateral frameworks be developed to coordinate domestic actions.