AI has become an area of intense economic competition and geopolitical rivalry. However, it also poses global challenges – such as how to manage the potential social and economic disruption which AI may cause, and how to ensure developing countries do not get left behind. On its current trajectory, the benefits of AI could be concentrated among certain countries, sectors, companies, and workers. Others risk both missing out on the benefits and suffering disproportionately from the disruptive costs.
To tackle this problem, three leading institutions working on AI – the Centre for Regulation in Europe (CERRE), the Beijing-based Centre for China and Globalization (CCG), and the global applied policy research institute JustJobs Network (JJN) – have published an issue paper with recommendations on inclusiveness for the Paris AI Action Summit.
To manage the consequences of AI for skills and employment, their recommendations include that:
- Governments fund an “early warning system” to disseminate emerging research and help governments understand the impacts of AI on labour markets.
- Policymakers provide incentives and/or regulation to help ensure AI investments complement human labour – rather solely focussing on substitution as the path to efficiency.
- Governments enact rules to ensure the private sector incorporates the views of workers and communities into decision-making about how AI is developed and deployed.
- The public and private sector provide support for affected industries, workers and communities – including not just transitional support but also, potentially, permanent redistributive policies to avoid AI contributing to even greater concentrations of wealth.
- Developing countries boost digital skills in their public education and training systems and ensure more support for workers transitioning between occupations.
Other recommendations are aimed at ensuring AI fitness for the developing world, including that:
- Developing country governments adopt “AI strategies” to provide long-term regulatory certainty and encourage more local private investment and entrepreneurship.
- Developed countries do more to boost the enablers of AI in poorer areas and in developing countries – such as electricity, computing power and connectivity.
- Regulators collaborate on competition and regulatory regimes to combat market concentration and ensure a thriving and sustainable ecosystem.
- Developing country governments coordinate public investments and resources to maximise their effectiveness.
- To boost the voice of developing countries in global AI governance, developing countries should form pragmatic coalitions to maximise their voice and avoid AI governance becoming dominated solely by the interests of large developed countries and blocs.
The recommendations reflect input gathered from leading voices in AI governance from around the world at a CERRE/CCG/JJN conference of 14 January 2025. The conference was an official partner event of the Paris AI Action Summit 2025.
CERRE Executive Chairman Bruno Liebhaberg said: “CERRE acknowledges the growing fragmentation of digital ecosystems and the increasingly complex geopolitical background. But the benefits of global partnerships and dialogue over artificial intelligence (AI) remain important – particularly to share lessons about how to manage the potential economic and social disruption AI may create within countries; to ensure AI helps to address global inequality; and to help bring the developing world into discussions on AI global governance.”
Watch the full recording of the online conference here.
Access the full recommendations here.
