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From February 6-7, 2026, the KAIST Global Center for Development and Strategy (G-CODEs) and New York University co-organized the “2026 NYU-KAIST AI Summit on Frontier AI Governance,” hosted at NYU’s Brooklyn campus in New York City.

Over two days, the summit convened 60 experts from academia, industry, government, and civil society to help move the frontier AI governance conversation from abstract high-level principles to practicable global approaches. The program featured keynote talks, a public panel discussion, and three issue-focused working groups drafting governance directions across: 1) governance requirements, 2) institutional architecture, and 3) implementation pathways.

Day 1 opened with an address by Karin Pavese and S. Matthew Liao, featuring keynotes by Director Kyung Ryul Park on the implications of Korea’s AI Action Plan and the Korea AI Act for global partnerships: Urs Gasser on the EU AI Act, and Brad Carson on AI in American politics. Participants engaged in working group deliberations and discussed governance obligations. Day 2 began with a keynote by Jiho Cha on Korea’s vision for an AI Universal Basic Society, setting the stage for an intensive day of consensus-building. Participants first developed proposals for an institutional architecture for AI governance by emphasizing inclusive participation, then turned to pragmatic implementation focusing on obligations that should define good AI governance.

The summit concluded with a public panel discussion including Kwame Antony Appiah, Rorry Daniels, Kenji Yoshino, Victoria Nash, Brad Carson, and Seb Krieron underscoring the importance of AI education and public trust.

Across sessions, participants agreed that progress in AI governance can be supported through strong professional and oversight standards, shared responsibility among stakeholders, and robust accountability principles, pointing to the international human rights framework as a critical foundation for global governance of frontier AI systems.

The successful completion of the summit marks a major milestone for the NYU-KAIST partnership, established in 2022 to foster international collaboration and advance research and education. Special thanks go to our working group chairs: Vincent Conitzer, Claudia Passos, Jeff Kahn, Simona Tiribelli and Stefaan Verhulst.