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3.1. Sustainable peace is non-negotiable in the emerging AI paradigm. The AI arms race must end immediately. Dual-use AI technologies and their international trade must be subject to rigorous, independent, ex-ante risk assessment by the International Scientific Panel on AI and subject to continual monitoring. Digital industrialization needs indigenous pathways, not lock-ins into one technological bloc or another. Sovereignty of digital public infrastructure and local AI capability are vital for regenerative economies, and call for dedicated international public finance.
3.2. The proposed International Decade of Data (2025-35) must be built on international data solidarity. Data resources are a societal commons that cannot be treated as a ‘free-for-all’ resource for dominant digital corporations to extract. A trusted international digitalfuture depends on cross-border data flows that are governed for equitable innovation dividends. Communities to whom the data belongs have the right to decide which data must flow, to whom, to what extent, and to what ends.
3.3. An urgent reform of digital trade, taxation, and intellectual property (IP) regimes that entrench inequality between countries is in order. Digital trade agreements cannot take away the policy space of governments to regulate transnational corporations in their domestic economy, nor erode regulatory authority to prevent data and AI harms. Taxation regimes need to be overhauled to address new forms of illicit financial flows in virtual operations–trade mis-invoicing, abusive transfer pricing, and base erosion and profit-shifting practices–that undercut the fiscal foundations for social care infrastructure in the
Global South. IP regimes cannot lead to the enclosure of public knowledge and colonization of cultures by powerful companies and their opaque AI models.
