Five AIMS: Lessons from Internet Governance for Artificial Intelligence Management Strategies

Sciences Po Tech & Global Affairs Innovation Hub

2025

Co-authors: Wendy Hall, Pierre Noro

Themes: Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Category: Open access, White paper/report

To help scaffold coherent, coordinated, and enforceable rules and institutions, Dame Wendy Hall, Kieron O’Hara, and Pierre Noro reinterpret the Four Internet models elaborated by Hall and O’Hara in their influential book Four Internets: Data, Geopolitics, and the Governance of Cyberspace in regard to AI technologies. This translation, grounded in an analysis of the historical, socio-economic, and ideological differences distinguishing the context that shaped Internet governance and the current one, yields many enlightening insights and is the foundation of five Artificial Intelligence Management Strategies (AIMS). With many illustrations to exemplify their core tenets, their limits and their intersections, this paper offers the Five AIMS as cardinal concepts to help AI governance stakeholders, especially public and private decisionmakers, navigate the upcoming AI Action Summit and future governance conversation. Concluding on a set of ongoing research questions reflecting open policy challenges, it is a foundational step towards cementing the Five AIMS as a suitable framework for understanding the governance of AI.

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