Solutions stage
Panel
In person
LeadersGoldDiscovery

AI in anticipatory governance: From foresight to action

  • Date
    9 July 2026
    Timeframe
    10:30 - 11:00 CEST
    Duration
    30 minutes

      As the pace of global change outstrips traditional planning cycles, AI is emerging as a transformative capability for anticipatory governance, enabling governments and international organizations to process vast datasets, detect weak signals, model complex futures, and stress-test policies before crises materialize. Where human analysts face cognitive and bandwidth limits, AI-powered horizon scanning, predictive analytics, and scenario simulation can dramatically expand the foresight capacity of public institutions. This panel, bringing together the UN Group of Friends on Strategic Foresight and Anticipatory Governance (GOFFA), the World Economic Forum, UNECE, and the OECD, explores how these technologies are already being applied in areas such as economic resilience modeling, public policy stress-testing and complex multilateral policy environments. The discussion examines how to deploy AI’s analytical power responsibly, keeping political leaders and affected communities at the centre of decision-making, and confronting honestly the governance challenges of transparency, inclusivity, and accountability that determine whether AI-augmented foresight translates into better, more adaptive policy outcomes.

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