AI Agents & Global Governance

2025

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1) This brief examines how foundational international law, non-binding global norms, and accountability mechanisms can be leveraged for anticipatory global governance of autonomous AI agents to manage cross-border harms and human rights impacts.
2) What's inside:
- Analysis of how existing international rules (such as state sovereignty, non-intervention, and due diligence) and human rights treaties apply to the cross-border and rights-related risks of action-taking AI agents.
- Identification of current gaps in the global governance ecosystem, including potential liability gaps, conflicts of laws, and a lack of centralized enforcement.
- Actionable recommendations for states, companies, international organizations, and civil society to strengthen AI governance and accountability channels.
3) Tags: AI agents, global governance, international law, human rights, accountability

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