Review essay asks who really has power to shape global AI governance institutions
ProfChesterman · x · 2026-10-06
In a review essay for the University of Toronto Law Journal, scholar Chesterman discusses Matthijs Maas's ambitious book "Architectures of Global AI Governance". He notes that with AI safety moving from academic papers to newspaper front pages and the UN delegates' lounge, the question of which global institutions could actually govern AI is becoming concrete.
His key critique: the problem is not simply what institutions to build, but who actually has the capacity and incentive to shape them—states still matter enormously, and so do international organisations.
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