BRICS Leaders' Statement on the Global Governance of Artificial Intelligence

Summary

Statement adopted with the final declaration of the 17th BRICS Summit in Rio de Janeiro. It sets guidelines for AI in the non-military domain: the United Nations at the core of global AI governance, digital sovereignty and each country's right to its own regulatory framework, fair competition, data governance, fair access to AI technology and critical components, copyright protection with transparency over model inputs and outputs, open-source development and inclusive standard-setting. It calls for human oversight, bias mitigation and action against realistic fake content, commits to addressing immediate and long-term risks and malicious use, and calls for a 'prudent approach' to AGI.

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Status notes

Adopted on 6 July 2025; the Kremlin's summit readout lists it with the final Declaration and the Leaders' Framework Declaration on Climate Finance as the documents adopted after the summit. The statement says the guidelines 'strictly refer to the use of AI in the non-military domain' and that BRICS 'will remain open to revisiting them', welcoming contributions from other developing countries. It calls for operationalising the UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance and the International Independent Scientific Panel on AI. The 2026 New Delhi Declaration (BRICS-02, paragraph 81) commits members to implement it. China's Foreign Ministry published a Chinese text on 9 July 2025.

Sources

Open the official source http://static.kremlin.ru/media/events/files/en/PRYUmwJ4A1XAvTILFOjFtl869IQDyOLl.pdf

Secondary source: http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/77373

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History

1. 2026-10-17notes: Adopted on 6 July 2025; the Kremlin's summit readout lists it with the final Dec → Adopted on 6 July 2025; the Kremlin's summit readout lists it with the final Dec — the call to operationalise the UN Global Dialogue and the Scientific Panel and the Chinese Foreign Ministry's text added; 'A Portuguese version was published by Brazil' removed, since it rests on no stored file (open question)2026-10-17-recheck-international-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
2. 2026-10-17safety_topics: ["international cooperation", "general-purpose / frontier AI", "accountability & → ["international cooperation", "general-purpose / frontier AI", "human oversight" — 'human oversight' and 'deepfakes & synthetic media' added for the sections 'Public Interest Comes First' and 'Stick to the Facts'2026-10-17-recheck-international-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
3. 2026-10-17summary: First standalone BRICS leaders' text on AI governance, adopted at the Rio summit → Statement adopted with the final declaration of the 17th BRICS Summit in Rio de — checked against the stored English text: 'First standalone BRICS leaders' text' removed (no stored file says so); 'compute' replaced by the text's 'AI technology and critical components'; human oversight ('ultimate authority and oversight from humans'), bias mitigation and fake content ('Stick to the Facts') added2026-10-17-recheck-international-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
4. 2026-10-17official_url: https://brics.br/en/documents/presidency-documents/250706_brics_ggai_declaration → http://static.kremlin.ru/media/events/files/en/PRYUmwJ4A1XAvTILFOjFtl869IQDyOLl. — the statement's English text as published by a BRICS member government (Russia's Presidential Executive Office), linked as 'Statement' from the stored Kremlin readout and stored in this run; the chairship's brics.br host does not resolve2026-10-17-recheck-international-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)

Related records

UN AI Scientific Panel & Global Dialogue resolution United Nations · Published (non-binding, current)

Global Digital Compact United Nations · Published (non-binding, current)

BRICS New Delhi Declaration 2026 (AI paragraphs) BRICS · Published (non-binding, current)

Global AI Governance Action Plan China · Published (non-binding, current)

Citation

BRICS Leaders, 17th BRICS Summit, Rio de Janeiro (Brazilian BRICS Chairship 2025). BRICS Leaders' Statement on the Global Governance of Artificial Intelligence. 2025-07-06. http://static.kremlin.ru/media/events/files/en/PRYUmwJ4A1XAvTILFOjFtl869IQDyOLl.pdf. Status: Published (non-binding, current); verified 2026-10-17 (level B). Local copy archive/BRICS-01/2026-10-17/official.pdf retrieved 2026-10-17 14:28:39 UTC, SHA-256 7b00730021709f6b144cd3ddb1a6a6b19971acb0cde7ff2a7cf51ccd4a52b829. Every AI Policy Ever, version 1.18 (snapshot 2026-10-18), record BRICS-01.

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