The governance gap that keeps growing

Jul 7, 2026 | Governance

The UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance concludes today in the same week that the ITU AI Summit's Day Zero launches a new 44-member UN Commission. I wrote earlier this week about the "architecture layer that doesn't exist." The temptation is to...

The architecture layer that doesn’t exist

Jul 6, 2026 | Systems

The UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance opened today in Geneva with the usual urgent rhetoric: "safe, secure and trustworthy AI," "inclusive and interoperable approaches," the familiar vocabulary of multilateral urgency. But beneath the press...

The shrinking space for dormancy

Jul 5, 2026 | Dormancy

Tomorrow in Geneva, the UN's first Global Dialogue on AI Governance opens with four pillars: opportunities, divides, safety, and human rights. Co-chaired by diplomats from El Salvador and Estonia, it will spend two days on the compatibility of national...

The governance holes in how agents talk to each other

Jul 4, 2026 | Governance, Systems

The machinery for AI agents to coordinate is maturing faster than the frameworks to govern them. A new preprint mapping governance gaps in interoperability protocols makes this concrete: MCP, A2A, ACP, ANP, and ERC-8004 all handle identity, capability discovery, tool...