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Beyond consensus: Building true AI governance

The World Economic Forum · · International · AI Governance

The World Economic Forum has published a piece arguing that effective AI governance requires moving beyond broad, vague consensus and toward concrete, enforceable structures. The piece calls for more substantive mechanisms to hold AI development accountable rather than relying on general agreement among stakeholders.

Why this matters: Consensus is where accountability goes to die. Everyone agrees AI should be 'safe' and 'trustworthy,' and then nothing binding gets built. The real problem is that voluntary frameworks let companies and governments stay comfortable while the actual decisions about AI, who it affects, what data it uses, and who answers when it fails, remain unresolved. Governance that cannot be enforced is not governance. It is a press release.

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