❝Why we need to make AI work for all, not just for good
The AI for Good global summit, at Palexpo in Geneva, 7 July 2026. AI expert Martin Wahlisch argues Geneva must change that – at next year’s global AI summit. The ITU’s AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva has come and gone once again.
AI expert Martin Wahlisch argues Geneva must change that – at next year’s global AI summit. The ITU’s AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva has come and gone once again.
This time it coincided with the first report by the Independent International Scientific Panel on Artificial Intelligence. One of its conclusionsis difficult to dispute: AI will reshape economies, public services, scientific discovery and national security.
What Happened
Like electricity and the internet before it, the countries with the capacity to develop and deploy AI will increasingly dominate markets, set standards and shape geopolitical influence. As governments begin looking beyond the Sustainable Development Goals, AI is shaping education, healthcare, productivity.
The AI for Good global summit, at Palexpo in Geneva, 7 July 2026.
In many respects, the post-2030 development agenda will be an AI agenda.
Three US firms – Amazon, Microsoft and Google – control roughly two-thirds of the global cloud market, while Taiwan’s TSMC manufactures over 90 per cent of the world’s most advanced semiconductors.
Key Details
Yet the global conversation remains largely focused on the capabilities of AI models, their risks and the safeguards required. Far less attention is paid to the political economy of AI: who owns the data centres, who builds the AI models, and who.
The global AI summit process has evolved remarkably in just four years, since it began in the United Kingdom with the Bletchley Park AI Safety Summit in 2023, where 28 countries and the European.
When the summit comes to Geneva in 2027, the ambition should be greater still: to make it a truly global summit, bringing together as many states as possible to shape not only how AI.
Switzerland should seize that opportunity by ensuring that the 2027 summit becomes the broadest global forum on AI to date.
Why It Matters
Just a handful of companies are developing the world’s most advanced foundation models. Nvidia supplies the vast majority of high-end AI chips that power frontier systems.
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What Reports Say
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