South Africa
Non-Western governments warned the UN that pacing frontier AI can be gatekeeping
At the UN General Assembly's 81st session in September 2026, Pakistan, Nigeria, Argentina and other non-Western governments said proposals to pace frontier AI development for safety can function as gatekeeping favouring whichever countries already lead, while pressing their own proposals for a real hand in the rules.
Assorted links for 27 September 2026
Five links: South Africa's AI policy rewrite after an AI-hallucinated citation scandal, a mapping of US federal AI governance against sector vulnerability, African diabetic-retinopathy screening running on imperfect data, record US scam losses driving a shift to cryptographic digital identity, and an executable Governance-as-Code compliance pipeline for the EU AI Act.
Assorted links for 2 September 2026
Six links: six Indian digital public infrastructure systems with no forum for public participation, the IMF on cyber losses and financial stability, OpenAI pausing reinforcement learning for two weeks, where the world's data centre capacity sits, a review of 122 studies on holding language models to account, and a proposal to work out which rules apply before a system acts.
Agents for the few, queues for the many – or agents for all?
Closing the public services divide by regulating for AI's opportunities.