The People's Mandate: Governing and Building AI from Queens to Cairo

AI policy is being written in very different rooms: a city council chamber in Queens, a parliament in Cairo, and an accelerator operating under a mandate from New York City government. Council Member Julie Won, who spent a decade at IBM modernizing government technology, Hon. Sahar Albazar, elected by young parliamentarians from 179 countries to lead them, and Javad Mushtaq, who heads the NYC AI Nexus for C10 Labs, compare notes on what it takes to govern AI at every scale. Who sets the rules, who builds within them, and how do we make sure millions of ordinary people, not just platforms, come out ahead?