IPIE SUBMISSION TO THE UN AI ADVISORY BODY: RESPONSE TO THE INTERIM REPORT ON GOVERNING AI FOR HUMANITY

The IPIE argues that AI audits are the primary mechanism to operationalize governance, moving beyond simple transparency to ensure human rights compliance and the fair distribution of AI benefits. It proposes a global audit framework based on universal parameters—including fairness, transparency, and technical robustness—and offers the IPIE's scientific expertise to help the UN develop these international standards and research functions.

• AI's potential benefits are hindered by the concentration of enablers like data, compute, and talent within large technology companies in the global north, while the global south often provides exploited labor for content moderation and reinforcement learning.
• AI audits are necessary to operationalize policy and regulations, but currently lack consensus on what should be audited and by whom; government audits typically focus on legal compliance, businesses on risk mitigation, and civil society on societal harm.
• A global audit system should be built upon a set of agreed parameters, including fairness versus bias, transparency and auditability, interpretability/explainability, regulatory and legal compliance, data privacy and commons, and technical robustness/safety.
• AI audits should be expansive and conducted by a diverse range of stakeholders—including internal, second-party, and independent external auditors, community actors, and domain experts—using testimonial, physical, documented, and qualitative data to capture societal harms.
• The IPIE proposes that audits be used to operationalize UN guiding principles, specifically to address the historical exclusion of certain communities, ensure data provenance complies with indigenous data sovereignty, and align AI impact with international human rights law and the Sustainable Development Goals.
• The IPIE offers its Scientific Panel on Global Standards for AI Auditing to support the UN's need for an IPCC-like research function and the harmonization of global safety and risk management frameworks.

APA

Sylvester, P. (2024). IPIE SUBMISSION TO THE UN AI ADVISORY BODY: RESPONSE TO THE INTERIM REPORT ON GOVERNING AI FOR HUMANITY. International Panel on the Information Environment. https://www.ipie.info/research/tp2024-2

Chicago

Sylvester, Prem. IPIE SUBMISSION TO THE UN AI ADVISORY BODY: RESPONSE TO THE INTERIM REPORT ON GOVERNING AI FOR HUMANITY. International Panel on the Information Environment, 2024. https://www.ipie.info/research/tp2024-2.

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BibTeX

@misc{sylvester2024ipie, author = {Sylvester, Prem}, title = {{IPIE SUBMISSION TO THE UN AI ADVISORY BODY: RESPONSE TO THE INTERIM REPORT ON GOVERNING AI FOR HUMANITY}}, publisher = {International Panel on the Information Environment}, year = {2024}, url = {https://www.ipie.info/research/tp2024-2}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }