AI: UNESCO wants to rearm the Convention on Cultural Diversity
Faced with international governance of artificial intelligence that too often marginalizes cultural issues and copyright, a large majority of States Parties to the 2005 Convention support the development of an additional protocol dedicated to AI. This is a strong political signal that could restore the normative scope of cultural diversity in the era of generative models. Twenty years after its adoption, UNESCO could provide its 2005 Convention on the Protection and Promotion… of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions with a new legally binding instrument. At the 19th session of its Intergovernmental Committee, a near-unanimous majority of States Parties voted in favor of developing an additional protocol dedicated to artificial intelligence. A peripheral cultural issue The signal is eminently political. In a context where international forums dedicated to AI—from the G7…