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STORY: GENEVA / AI GOVERNANCE INTERVIEWS
TRT: 4:11
SOURCE: UNTV CH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / FRENCH / NATS
DATELINE: 06 JULY 2026, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
1. Various shots, conference venue with banners for AI for Good Global Summit and Global Dialogue on AI Governance
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Amandeep Singh Gill, Under-Secretary-General and Special Envoy for Digital and Emerging Technologies:
“The UN's role is to bring the world together, not just Governments, from all its 193 Member States, but also civil society, private sector, independent scientists and academia to learn from each other, but also to shape the AI future. So we provide the most inclusive platform on the globe for discussions on artificial intelligence. The UN also has a bedrock of norms, from human rights to sustainable development to the environment, and AI's governance needs to be grounded in some kind of shared norms. So the UN is the ready made platform for bringing in those norms into the governance of AI. So those are very, very strong reasons for why the UN should play a central role. And now the world has recognized this by convening here in Geneva at the inaugural dialog on the governance of AI.”
3. Various shots, conference venue
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Amandeep Singh Gill, Under-Secretary-General and Special Envoy for Digital and Emerging Technologies:
“I think if we don't get this right, then we are likely to see an immense concentration of tech power and wealth in a few zip codes, in a few postal codes. And we are also likely to see harms from AI at the individual level and perhaps at the societal and systemic level as well. So it would be a world in which we will struggle to, as humanity, to come to grips with machines which will be in the hands of a very few people in a very few geographies.”
5. Various shots, conference venue
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Doreen Bogdan-Martin, Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU):
“Today 2.2 billion people have never ever accessed the internet. So we have this huge digital divide. And those that are not actually connected are going to be left behind when it comes to artificial intelligence. So we got to close that divide. And we need to have countries invest in their digital foundations, building out resilient infrastructure, getting people access, making sure the access is affordable, making sure that access is meaningful, that it's safe and can be trusted. And so if we can do that and close that divide, we can also help countries to be able to leverage the opportunities of artificial intelligence, including access to compute, access to skilling, and we've heard from so many countries the importance of capacity development in the age of AI.”
7. Various shots, conference venue
8. SOUNDBITE (French) Khaled El-Enany, UNESCO Director-General:
“We have a vast network of scientists in leading positions in universities, in associated second category higher education institutions and among the world's experts. Everyone is working together with the UN family principally to boost capacity, to reduce inequalities and to ensure that everyone has access to artificial intelligence today.”
9. Wide shot, conference venue
Special Envoy for Digital and Emerging Technologies Amandeep Singh Gill said the UN provides the world’s most inclusive platform for AI governance, bringing together governments, civil society, businesses and experts around the globe at Geneva’s inaugural dialogue on AI governance.
Speaking to UN News today (6 Jul) in Geneva, the Special Envoy said, “ if we don't get this right, then we are likely to see an immense concentration of tech power and wealth in a few zip codes, in a few postal codes. And we are also likely to see harms from AI at the individual level and perhaps at the societal and systemic level as well.”
Gill added, “it would be a world in which we will struggle to, as humanity, to come to grips with machines which will be in the hands of a very few people in a very few geographies.”
Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Doreen Bogdan-Martin highlighted a “huge digital divide” in today’s world with 2.2 billion people have never ever accessed the internet.
Bogdan-Martin said, “those that are not actually connected are going to be left behind when it comes to artificial intelligence, reiterating the need to close that divide.
She said, “we need to have countries invest in their digital foundations, building out resilient infrastructure, getting people access, making sure the access is affordable, making sure that access is meaningful, that it's safe and can be trusted.”
“If we can do that and close that divide,” Bogdan-Martin said, “we can also help countries to be able to leverage the opportunities of artificial intelligence, including access to compute, access to skilling, and we've heard from so many countries the importance of capacity development in the age of AI.”
UNESCO Director-General Khaled El-Enany said, “we have a vast network of scientists in leading positions in universities, in associated second category higher education institutions and among the world's experts. Everyone is working together with the UN family principally to boost capacity, to reduce inequalities and to ensure that everyone has access to artificial intelligence today.”
