BRICS Forum Seeks Equitable AI Benefits Sharing

• The BRICS Media and Think Tank Forum, a gathering of over 250 representatives from 36 countries, aims to foster greater South-South cooperation for equitable AI benefits sharing.

• The forum raised concerns about AI capabilities being concentrated among a few actors in a few countries, potentially creating dangerous dependencies for Global South nations.

• The forum stressed the importance of open source AI development and the need for Global South nations to work together in shaping AI governance frameworks.

• The forum’s lead statement on AI called for the development of a “multilingual and multimodal corpus” for media organizations and think tanks in the Global South.

• The forum urged BRICS media organizations and think tanks to prioritize stories from different parts of the Global South as a necessary corrective to prevailing hegemonies and biases in the international media landscape.

• The forum launched the ‘Global South Joint Communication Partnership Program’, an initiative by Xinhua News Agency to promote dialogue and cooperation across various sectors within the Global South.