{"id":98257,"date":"2026-07-06T14:57:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T14:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/98257\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T14:57:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T14:57:18","slug":"swiss-minister-calls-for-genuinely-multi-stakeholder-process-in-ai-governance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/98257\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss minister calls for &#8216;genuinely multi-stakeholder&#8217; process in AI governance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/567ccc21a95563edea360ace01cf44a71b131864-91704672.jpg\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1050\" alt=\"The World AI Summit in Geneva will take place on 21 and 22 June 2027\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                The participation of everyone in AI, including developing countries, will be one of the issues on which Switzerland intends to focus in 2027 at the World Summit on AI in Geneva, the minister said.            <\/p>\n<p>            Keystone-SDA        <\/p>\n<p>        AI governance must put people at the centre, Swiss Environment Minister Albert R\u00f6sti said in Geneva on Monday. Speaking on behalf of some 40 countries, R\u00f6sti announced that the next global AI summit, scheduled to take place in the same city, will be held June 21-22, 2027.\n<\/p>\n<p>            Listen to the article        <\/p>\n<p>            Listening the article        <\/p>\n<p>                Toggle language selector            <\/p>\n<p>                            English (US)                        <\/p>\n<p>                            English (British)                        <\/p>\n<p>            Generated with artificial intelligence.        <\/p>\n<p>        This content was published on    <\/p>\n<p>        July 6, 2026 &#8211; 16:07\n<\/p>\n<p>The Freedom Online Coalition, chaired this year by Switzerland, is calling for genuinely multi-stakeholder processes, R\u00f6sti said during the first Global Dialogue on the Governance of Artificial Intelligence (AI), hosted by the United Nations in Geneva and bringing together several thousand people from over 170 countries. <\/p>\n<p>The United Nations must \u201clead by example in its own practices,\u201d added the minister, who heads the Federal Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications (DETEC).<\/p>\n<p>\n    More<\/p>\n<p>    <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/616093295_highres.jpg\" width=\"1300\" height=\"867\" alt=\"Slogan showcase in Davos during the WEF\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        More    <\/p>\n<p>        Swiss AI\n        <\/p>\n<p>        The price of having a say on AI in Davos\u00a0    <\/p>\n<p class=\"teaser-wide-card__excerpt\">\n<p>                        This content was published on                    <\/p>\n<p>                        Feb 3, 2026                    <\/p>\n<p>                At the World Economic Forum, small organisations struggle to make their voices heard in the debate on artificial intelligence. A report from Davos.            <\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"teaser-wide-card__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/swiss-ai\/the-price-of-having-a-say-on-ai-in-davos\/90873804\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>            Read more: The price of having a say on AI in Davos\u00a0<br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>This applies in particular to the way it operates, but also to collaborations relating to this technology. People must be at the centre, and AI must be \u201cfirmly rooted\u201d in human rights, he said.<\/p>\n<p>We must also recognise the threats, the minister said in his speech, including arbitrary surveillance, disinformation and the undermining of institutions.<\/p>\n<p>The participation of everyone in AI, including developing countries, will be one of the issues on which Switzerland intends to focus in 2027 at the World Summit on AI in Geneva. The Alpine country also wants to better link regulatory processes, science, technology and practical applications. AI governance must be operational, R\u00f6sti said.<\/p>\n<p>Translated from French\/sub-editing gw<\/p>\n<p>        Articles in this story    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The participation of everyone in AI, including developing countries, will be one of the issues on which Switzerland&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7],"tags":[101,567,9334,2143,65,100,69,103,1434],"class_list":["post-98257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-geneva","tag-article","tag-beat-international-geneva","tag-beat-swiss-ai","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-geneva","tag-latest-news","tag-politics","tag-production-type-deepl-autotranslation","tag-sci-tech"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116873622083895615","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}