WORLD LEADERS AND TECH EXECUTIVES JOIN FORCES AT THE UN — NEW AI COMMISSION CO-CHAIRED BY SALESFORCE CEO AND RWANDAN PRESIDENT LAUNCHES IN GENEVA The United Nations just stood up the most powerful AI advisory body in its history. The new AI for Good Global Commission held its first meeting in Geneva on July 8, one day after the UN’s Global Dialogue on AI Governance wrapped up. The commission is co-chaired by Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and Rwandan President Paul Kagame, an unusual pairing that reflects the UN’s attempt to bring both the private sector and the developing world into the conversation at the same level. The member list reads like a who’s who of the AI moment. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy is on it. So is Jack Clark, one of Anthropic’s co-founders and a longtime voice on AI safety. The commission was convened through the International Telecommunication Union, giving it a more operational mandate than a typical UN study group. The timing is not coincidental. The UN’s global dialogue in Geneva revealed a striking split. There is broad agreement on what the risks are. There is almost no agreement on how to address them. Countries that are building AI, countries that are being governed by it, and countries trying to regulate it from the outside are not speaking the same language. This commission is an attempt to change that. Whether it has the teeth to do so is the question nobody at the table wants to answer directly. The technology is not waiting for the politics to catch up. Keywords: UN AI commission, AI governance 2026, Marc Benioff AI, Jack Clark Anthropic UN