# UN Dialogue Leaders Call for a Global Baseline on AI Safety Rules

> Following the first UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance in Geneva, organizers are pushing for shared safety standards and closer international coordination as artificial intelligence regulation continues to develop unevenly around the world.

- Source: Standard
- Canonical URL: https://standard.de.com/article/un-dialogue-leaders-call-for-a-global-baseline-on-ai-safety-rules
- Author: Sofía López
- Section: Policies & World
- Published: 2026-09-22T06:09:26.387Z
- Updated: 2026-09-22T06:09:26.387Z
- Tags: AI, United Nations, Regulation, AI Safety

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Momentum is building at the United Nations for a coordinated global approach to AI safety, following the first annual Global Dialogue on AI Governance held in Geneva this past July. Organizers of the event are now pressing governments to move from discussion to concrete action on shared safety standards.

The two day gathering at Geneva's Palexpo convention center drew more than 4,200 registered participants from nearly 170 UN member states, spanning government officials, representatives from international organizations, private industry, civil society groups, academics, and technical experts. Discussions were organized around four thematic clusters covering AI's opportunities and risks, closing gaps in AI access between wealthy and developing nations, building safe and trustworthy AI systems, and protecting human rights alongside transparency and accountability.

## A Push for a Shared Safety Floor

Rather than positioning itself to write binding global AI law, the UN has framed its role as bringing national governments together, offering a scientific basis for their discussions, and identifying where international cooperation makes sense even as individual countries continue setting their own rules. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has argued that national regulation alone will not be enough, saying that global coordination remains essential alongside whatever individual governments choose to do domestically.

Organizers involved in the dialogue are now calling for the UN to help establish a common reference baseline for AI safety, one grounded in existing international human rights law rather than built from scratch. The idea is to give countries with less developed regulatory capacity a starting framework to work from, rather than leaving each nation to develop safety standards entirely on its own.

## Specific Proposals Take Shape

Guterres has also called for more targeted measures to emerge from the dialogue process, including a pledge focused on protecting children from AI related harms and a global fund that would help developing countries build out their own AI infrastructure and technical capacity. He has framed the overall goal as ensuring AI systems remain safe, transparent, and accountable, with human dignity kept at the center of how the technology is deployed.

With AI regulation continuing to develop unevenly across different countries and regions, the dialogue's organizers argue that the window for establishing shared global principles is narrowing. Whether governments translate the Geneva discussions into binding commitments, or the effort remains largely aspirational, is likely to become clearer as the UN prepares for further rounds of the dialogue in the years ahead.

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