This overview reflects the central points of our contribution. For completeness, we share below the full statement of the Global AI Center — a comprehensive articulation of our position, detailing both alignment with and complementarity to the DPI Safeguards Framework.​

Distinguished Colleagues,

Statement of the Global AI Center today will be inextricably linked with three thematic pillars within the Framework: AI and Emerging Technologies, Cybersecurity, and Financial Inclusion. 

It is with the highest regard for the objectives of the DPI Safeguards Initiative that we address this forum. Our intervention today is anchored in the recognition of a substantive alignment between the Foundational Principles and Operational Guidelines of the DPI Safeguards Framework (September 2024) and the AI Constitution (published and registered with the US Copyright Office in 2023 and presented to the UN in January 2024).

This prior constitutional codification anticipated several of the principles later embedded in the DPI Framework, thereby demonstrating not only conceptual compatibility but also chronological precedence, enabling a structured basis for harmonization.  In several areas — including algorithmic accountability, risk classification, and cross-border interoperability — the Constitution provides a more comprehensive articulation of safeguards, with greater granularity in implementation pathways. These extended provisions were further developed in our Legislative Models for Predictive AI in Public-Private Fraud Prevention Frameworks, officially published by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in June 2025.

Alignment and Complementarity​

• The Framework offers an excellent high-level structure.

• Our legislative models give these principles statutory form, ensuring that safeguards are not only voluntary but binding, enforceable, and measurable.

• While alignment is substantial, there is scope for targeted complementarity, particularly in financial governance, emerging technologies, cybersecurity, and child rights.

Why AI Provisions Must Be Strengthened Here

• Under “Emerging Tech,” AI is currently referenced broadly. We propose introducing a dedicated AI Governance Annex to the Framework, embedding:

  • Algorithmic auditability and transparency requirements for all AI systems integrated into DPI.

  • Bias mitigation protocols to prevent financial discrimination in credit scoring, digital lending, and fintech services.

  • Predictive AI tools for early detection of cyber threats targeting financial and public service systems.

  • Child rights–specific safeguards, including prohibitions on exploitative profiling, and mandatory independent audits of AI systems affecting minors’ data, welfare, or access to services.

Enhancing Financial Inclusion

• AI can both widen and narrow access to financial services. Without safeguards, automated systems may exclude vulnerable populations through opaque credit algorithms or unverified identity checks.

• To align with DPI’s financial inclusion goals, we recommend:

  • AI-driven fraud prevention in mobile banking and microfinance ecosystems, ensuring small-scale transactions remain safe and affordable.

  • Transparent algorithmic decision-making in loan approvals and benefit disbursements, enabling fair access.

  • Publicly accessible AI–DPI Registry for all financial inclusion technologies, to ensure compliance with the Framework and allow independent oversight.

Cybersecurity & AI Convergence

• DPI’s cybersecurity provisions can be reinforced by incorporating:

  • Predictive intrusion detection systems that learn and adapt to prevent fraud in real time.

  • Eco-cybersecurity principles, ensuring AI systems in DPI protect not only data but also interconnected physical and environmental assets.

  • Tri-sectoral Cyber Oversight Boards — formally mandated bodies bringing together state, private sector, and civil society to supervise high-impact DPI–AI deployments.

Additional Thematic Pillar – Space Governance & DPI Integration

The resilience and interoperability of DPI increasingly depend on space-based systems, including satellite communications, GNSS, and Earth observation platforms.

We recommend:

• Embedding AI-driven predictive monitoring to safeguard satellite-linked DPI from cyber or kinetic threats.

• Establishing space-data sovereignty protocols to ensure that satellite-derived datasets used in DPI comply with privacy, security, and human rights safeguards.

• Integrating eco-cybersecurity standards to protect space-linked environmental monitoring systems that underpin climate adaptation, disaster response, and agricultural resilience.

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In Closing

We extend our sincere thanks to the organizers for convening this important forum — a space where principles can be sharpened into protections, and where shared commitments can become shared safeguards.

The alignment between the DPI Safeguards Framework and Global AI Center’s-published legislative models forms a strong basis for joint action. We stand ready to collaborate, bringing statutory precision to the Framework’s vision so AI-enabled DPI systems remain inclusive, secure, and future-resilient.