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The Week Governance Moved From Capitals to Code | 09.08.26
This week two major multilateral blocs staked out opposite governance instincts on the same underlying problem. At a G20 summit in Chapel Hill, all twenty member nations — including China and Russia — endorsed the U.S.-backed Carolina Principles, a non-binding pledge to avoid new AI regulators in favor of light-touch, sector-specific rules. Days earlier, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation's Bishkek Declaration took the opposite emphasis, saying little about rules while committing member states to shared AI computing infrastructure. Neither bloc addressed who verifies compliance or traces a…
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