AI is redrawing the global power map and policymakers are under pressure to catch up. This conversation goes deep on the fracture lines between innovation and regulation, the risk of global policy drift, and the difficult choices governments face in the next decade. What happens when tech acceleration outpaces the frameworks built to contain it?

AI systems are not neutral. Built on global data and deployed worldwide, they are governed by power concentrated in a few countries, with real consequences for women and marginalised communities in the Majority World. This roundtable draws on Nighat Dad’s frontline work addressing technology-facilitated gender-based violence and her experience in global platform governance to examine responsibility beyond Western compliance. The discussion explores accountability, human rights, and what meaningful AI safety looks like outside traditional policy frameworks.