Building Trust: Digital Infrastructure Fit for the AI Era

Official AI Impact Summit Session

Artificial intelligence (AI) is fundamentally reshaping how sovereignty is understood and exercised by individuals, communities, and nations. While governments played a decisive role in building the early internet, the digital economy has since been largely shaped by private actors. Today, AI development is also primarily driven by the private sector, raising critical questions about how innovation can be aligned with democratic values, public capacity, and the common good.

This high-level roundtable convenes policymakers, public sector leaders, researchers, and civil society to examine interoperability challenges in government AI infrastructure strategies and to share practical lessons on designing citizen-first systems. Together with our partners Stanford University’s Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) and Project Liberty, the discussion will generate concrete insights for building resilient, inclusive, and public-interest-oriented digital infrastructure. These insights will feed into a global roadmap to be published in March 2026 and shared across G7 and G20 policy platforms.

 

Speakers

• Prof. Dr. Rob Reich – Faculty Associate Director, Stanford Institute on Human-Centered AI

• Supheakmungkol Sarin, PhD – Co-Founder, AI Safety Asia

• Dr. Tomicah Tillemann – President, Project Liberty Institute

• Vidisha Mishra – Director of Global Outreach & Policy, Global Solutions Initiative

• Dr. Arvind Gupta – Co-Founder, Digital India Foundation

• Sarah Nicole – Policy & Research Manager, Project Liberty Institute

 

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