AnalysisRamsha Jahangir, Justin Hendrix / Sep 28, 2026Sam Altman (seated on top right end), CEO of OpenAI, arrives to speak at a UN Security Council meeting on Artificial Intelligence during the 81st United Nations General Assembly, United Nations Headquarters, NY, September 23, 2026. (Photo by Anthony Behar/Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Images)While governments in the United States and Europe debate how to regulate and slow the development of frontier AI, countries across the rest of the world are approaching the question differently.At the United Nations General Assembly High-Level Week last week, governments called for a greater role in shaping AI rules, expanding access to AI capacity and ensuring that efforts to make AI safer do not deepen existing technological divides. Pakistan, for example, backed calls to pace frontier AI while warning that “pacing must not become a new form of gatekeeping.”Here is how governments outside the Western AI powers and China approached AI governance during UNGA.

TURTürkiyeRecep Tayyip Erdoğan · President · Sept. 22Called for a UN convention.“It is long overdue now to establish a common international legal framework for AI,” Erdoğan said, urging countries to move faster toward a UN International Convention on Artificial Intelligence.Read the statement…

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