CeSIA joins UNESCO's Global CSO and Academic Network on AI Ethics and Policy

CeSIA is since February 2026 a member of UNESCO's Global CSO and Academic Network on AI Ethics and Policy. The Network was launched in June 2025 to widen civil society participation in global AI governance. It brings together civil society organisations and academic institutions from across regions, organised into five thematic subgroups. CeSIA sits on the subgroup working on international AI red lines, which connects directly to the Global Call for AI Red Lines we co-lead.

We joined this subgroup in particular because of where it sits. UNESCO's 2021 Recommendation on the Ethics of AI is the only instrument on AI that every member state has shown willingness to adopt, and it already contains meaningful commitments. That changes the nature of the conversation: discussing red lines at UNESCO is less about proposing new constraints than about establishing what states have already agreed to and what those agreements require in practice. It also has reach.

The subgroup is producing a two-part report on how existing international frameworks address AI red lines. The completed first part reviews several of them, including the EU AI Act, the Council of Europe's AI treaty, UNESCO's own 2021 Recommendation on the Ethics of AI, the OECD's AI Principles, and the Ibero-American Charter on AI. The second part is still in progress. CeSIA also gave the wider Network a presentation in July on this topic, which has since been shared with other member organisations and positively received.