INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY, DIGITALISATION AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE : DIGITALISATION //
G7 PERFORMANCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, ICT AND DIGITALISATION, 1975–2024
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25
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Compliance (%)
Conclusions (% words)
Commitments (%)
Compliance (%)
Conclusions (% words)
Commitments (%)
Note: For years with data on commitments but none on conclusions, there was at least one commitment on information and communications technologies, but no data calculated for corresponding ICT conclusions, and no data found for digitalisation.
87%, based on the 19 priority commitments assessed by the G7 Research Group. This is well above the G7’s all-subject average of 77%. Compliance peaked at 100% with the commitments made in 2000, followed by 97% with those made in 2023. The lowest compliance was 72% for 2019 and 75% for 2018. By December 2024, compliance with the two assessed 2024 commitments, on AI for work and on closing digital divides, averaged 85%. By member, compliance has been led by the United Kingdom at 95%, closely followed by the European Union at 94%, Canada at 92% and France at 90%. Then come the United States and Germany at 87%, Japan at 84% and Italy at 75%. RECOMMENDATIONS To improve the compliance with their commitments on ICT, digitalisation and AI, G7 leaders can take the following actions: 1. Make more commitments on AI, as these average compliance of 97%; 2. Make more commitments on countering
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Make commitments that refer to a G7-centred institutional process or body, as such commitments average compliance of 96% (with that on the Dot Force at 100%, the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence at 94%, the Genoa Plan of Action at 88% and the Hiroshima AI Process at 100%). This suggests the value of having a related G7 ministerial meeting after the Kananaskis Summit to help implement the commitments made there and build on them in this specialised and fast-moving field.
// NANCY E. SCOTT Nancy Scott is legal adviser to the G7 Research Group and the Global Govern- ance Program. She is also the senior vice president and deputy general counsel at Cisco. Previously she served as the vice president and deputy general counsel at VMware Inc with responsibility for the international and commercial legal team, and as the vice president and deputy general counsel for global commercial law at Avaya Inc. Nancy has long been a passionate advancer of equity and justice in society, inclusivity and diversity, and regularly mentors and coaches women in technology roles.
foreign interference, especially from authoritarian regimes, using digital technologies, as such commitments also average compliance of 97%.
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