Towards a New Coalition of Nations

This site proposes a new pathway to AI policy for the Global South. Called the AI Middle Way, it is a middle-way alternative to the highly regulated Chinese approach and the highly unregulated American approach. Not merely a compromise between that binary, it aims to eliminate data colonialism and provide skills and dignified jobs for billions of citizens.

In 1951, when Alan Turing furthered the AI field, he noted that a moment would surely arrive when governments would step in to put guard rails on a technology that could produce massive harm. That moment did seem to arrive in 2023 as ChatGPT soared and an AI Safety movement emerged. But by 2024, the forces of AI acceleration emerged and US markets gained $1.7 trillion in just two years — the most rapid surge of wealth in world history.

Behind the failure of AI governance was the split between the US and China, as both sides sought control over five billion citizens of the Global South. It seemed as if a new cold war was on the rise.

Maybe not.

In the pages of this web site you will learn of a third way. You will find that the term “middle way” has deep philosophic resonance that harkens back to the beginning of human civilization — and, just maybe, it indeed may rapidly take hold before it is too late.

What the coalition actually does

The AI Middle Way is not a think tank report. It is a sequence of national declarations — signed by governments, universities, and civil society partners — that translate the framework into commitments and concrete policies in each country.

The Bangkok Declaration was signed at Chulalongkorn University on April 29, 2026. The Jakarta Declaration follows on June 25, 2026, anchored by Indonesia's leading AI institution, KORIKA. Mexico City, the Vatican, Peru, Brazil, South Africa, and Saudi Arabia are next in the sequence.

Each declaration is paired with a national seminar, partnerships with universities, and a strategy for blended finance to fund AI development that serves the lower-middle class — the 2.1 billion people for whom AI must work if it is to deliver on its promise.