High-level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence
In plain wordsA group of experts set up by the UN Secretary-General in 2023 to advise on governing AI worldwide; its 2024 report led to the UN's AI science panel and global dialogue.
A multistakeholder body of 39 experts from government, industry, academia and civil society, convened by UN Secretary-General António Guterres from October 2023 to recommend how AI should be governed internationally. Its final report, Governing AI for Humanity (September 2024), argued that a global governance deficit left most countries out of decisions about AI and proposed seven measures: an international scientific panel on AI, a policy dialogue on AI governance, an AI standards exchange, a capacity-development network, a global fund for AI, a global AI data framework and a small AI office in the UN Secretariat. The first two were taken up in the Global Digital Compact and created in 2025 as the Independent International Scientific Panel on AIIndependent International Scientific Panel on AI, prop. n.: A group of 40 independent experts set up by the United Nations in 2025 to give every country a shared, science-based picture of what AI can do, its risks and its benefits. and the Global Dialogue on AI GovernanceGlobal Dialogue on AI Governance, prop. n.: A yearly United Nations meeting, launched in 2025, where all countries — joined by companies, researchers and civil society — discuss how to cooperate on governing AI..
The High-level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence recommended a scientific panel modeled loosely on the IPCC.
Origin
Announced by the Secretary-General on 26 October 2023; it issued an interim report in December 2023 and its final report in September 2024, shortly before the Summit of the Future.
Usage note
Its mandate is complete. It stopped short of proposing an international AI agency, leaving stronger institutions for later consideration if risks grew.
Related
- Independent International Scientific Panel on AIIndependent International Scientific Panel on AI, prop. n.: A group of 40 independent experts set up by the United Nations in 2025 to give every country a shared, science-based picture of what AI can do, its risks and its benefits.
- Global Dialogue on AI GovernanceGlobal Dialogue on AI Governance, prop. n.: A yearly United Nations meeting, launched in 2025, where all countries — joined by companies, researchers and civil society — discuss how to cooperate on governing AI.
- AI governanceAI governance, n.: The rules, institutions and habits that shape how AI is built and used — from laws and treaties to technical standards and a company's own review processes.
- International AI Safety ReportInternational AI Safety Report, prop. n.: A large scientific review, led by the computer scientist Yoshua Bengio and backed by more than 30 countries, summing up what is known about what advanced AI can do and how it could go wrong.
Sources
- UN High-level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence (2024). Governing AI for Humanity: Final Report. United Nations, September 2024.
Mentioned in
Global Digital CompactGlobal Digital Compact, prop. n.: A 2024 agreement among United Nations member countries setting shared goals for the digital world — closing digital divides, protecting rights online, governing data and AI — and creating new UN bodies on AI., IAEA for AIIAEA for AI, phr.: The idea of an international agency for the most advanced AI, modeled on the UN's nuclear watchdog, which inspects countries' nuclear programs to keep them safe and peaceful.