Dr. Donna Hamlin, CEO 

AI faces many challenges across the globe and professionals from all angles – governance, data management and ownership, cultural adoption, sovereignty, policies, development, structure and talent are some of the many topics more than 700 AI related professionals explored as active attendees from a wide array of countries at The AI Forum held in the United Nations Center in Bangkok on February 3-5^th.  As I attended as a delegate, I can confirm the passion and commitment of this community is strong. The goals to bring best practices of AI equally to all countries are bold and demanding.

Even if your board is comfortable with its AI oversight, boards will have many new challenges ahead. As comfortable as your board may be in the moment, preparing for the future is vital.

Topics and Actions Under Construction include:

• How to secure AI technology development security, sovereignty, transparency of shared matter for access to data
• Creating economic sovereignty
• Governance, policies and standards differences and alignment opportunities for national protection and possible shared governance rules for access, evaluation frameworks and controls. Extending to shared research about insights about experiences and results  to learn what works best and how to engage and collaborate based on high performance results
• Data ownership considerations for collaboration and protection of data, ownership of assets, accountability of data and control,
• New development partnerships to advance AI cooperation globally (such as Mexico and AI Fod who signed a contract last week to collaborate on valuable AI for health and education.)
• Trust in AI when many lack trust
• Assessing bias and issues of bad data in the systems in play
• Is shared development across countries doable in reasonable means and time
• Creating controls for local ownership, development, structure, use and IOT data with localized model using local language and embedded local culture in the tools and the talent to do it well
• Academic help to build practical AI skills for audit, governance, cultural design and development
• Collective action to collaboration of creative development, working together as one voice but not one language, and governance rules that build capability globally.

Our firm collaborates with the AI Fod organization members to support and stay current on rapid changes as they come. Our team is here to help any boards who have questions or need help. Reach us any time if you need advice or assistance.