Global Forum on the Ethics of AI 2025
Changing the Landscape of AI Governance
The 2nd Global Forum on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence: Changing the Landscape of AI Governance, took place in the Brdo Congress Centre of Kranj on 5 and 6 February 2024.
This Forum brought together the experiences and expertise of countries at different levels of technological and policy development, for a focused exchange to learn from each other, and for a dialogue with the private sector, academia and a wider civil society.
The forum will convene global leaders, AI experts, industry pioneers, and policymakers to address critical challenges and opportunities in AI development. Participants will delve into implementing UNESCO’s AI Ethics Recommendations, balancing innovation with responsibility, and fostering global collaboration to shape inclusive and ethical AI governance frameworks. Building on the first Global Forum in Prague, Czech Republic, in 2022, and the second in Kranj, Slovenia, the 2025 forum continues UNESCO’s mission to advance the adoption of its groundbreaking 2021 Recommendation—the first global standard on AI ethics.
Key topics will include AI's impact on human rights, gender equality, and sustainability, featuring expert panels, interactive discussions, and actionable strategies to align technological innovation with ethical principles. This year’s forum aims to drive tangible progress and inspire international collaboration toward a responsible AI-powered future.
Recommendation on the Ethics of AI
91Â鶹¹ú²ú¾«Æ·×ÔÅÄ made a seminal contribution to the goal of effective and ethical AI governance by adopting an International global standard – the Recommendation on the Ethics of AI – in 2021, and spearheading its implementation by the Member States through innovative tools and methodologies, such as the Readiness and the Ethical Impact Assessments. 
Through the application of these tools, UNESCO is changing the business model that drives AI, and going beyond principles to develop a range of concrete and practical solutions and to ensure that AI outcomes are fair, inclusive, sustainable and non-discriminatory.
Evidence obtained through this work, including comprehensive and multidimensional diagnoses of AI readiness across sixty countries around the world, will inform the debates during the Forum.
Programme
During the first day of the Forum, high-level decision makers, industry leaders, representatives of scientific and research institutions as well as non-government organisations shared their insights and good practices about governance of Artificial Intelligence at global, regional and national levels.
The second day of the Forum featured leading experts in the field exploring opportunities and challenges posed by AI, such as the potential of the technology to advance the agenda of equity, diversity and non-discrimination, emerging best practices of AI supervision, partnerships with the private sector through the ethical impact assessments, and the impact of AI on gender equality.
The Forum also featured the launch of various UNESCO initiatives including the Global AI Ethics Observatory and UNESCO AI Ethics Experts without Borders Network.
Getting AI policy right is one of the most consequential challenges of our time, calling for mutual learning based on the lessons and good practices emerging from the different jurisdictions around the world.
The question is not whether to legislate on AI and converging technologies or not, but how to best do so. We need true global coordination and knowledge sharing to build a responsible AI ecosystem that benefits everyone.
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