United World Leaders Perspectives on AI — The Future of AI Governance
Dear Members and Friends,
You are invited to the next session of United World Leaders' Perspectives on AI series.
When:
Thursday, May 21, 2026
1:00 PM EST | 1 Hour
Where: Zoom
Access: Free and Open to the Public
SPEAKER
Rep. Erika Uyterhoeven,
Chairwoman, UWL Council on Digital and AI Governance.
Massachusetts State Representative, 27th Middlesex District.
Candidate for Massachusetts State Senate, 2nd Middlesex District (Somerville, Medford, Cambridge, and Winchester).
ABOUT THIS SESSION
Erika Uyterhoeven has emerged as one of the most substantive state-level voices on AI governance in the country. A three-term state legislator with a record built on government transparency, she is currently developing legislation that treats the transition to agentic and general artificial intelligence as the governance problem state law needs to anticipate — not a distant abstraction to defer until federal policy catches up.
Her work is grounded in live experience. In February 2026 she filed a public records request on the Healey administration's multimillion-dollar OpenAI contract and the task force that recommended it, a process that surfaced the gap between how governments are currently deploying AI and how the public understands those decisions. What that investigation revealed is not the story she is telling — it is the evidence base behind a broader argument about what governance infrastructure needs to look like before systems capable of recursive self-improvement and autonomous action on behalf of individuals become operational.
She has consulted with senior industry leaders, civil liberties organizations, municipal officials, and international AGI governance researchers including Jerome Glenn of the Millennium Project, whose UN-affiliated Phase 2 Delphi on AGI governance has informed the architecture of her legislative framework.
THE CONVERSATION
For this session, Erika will speak to the question UWL's audience is best positioned to engage: what does it mean to build democratic governance for AI systems that are moving faster than the institutions meant to oversee them — and how should leaders be thinking about the transition from current narrow AI to mid-AGI systems capable of autonomous self-improvement?
The conversation will cover:
• The procurement and deployment decisions already being made inside government
• The architectural choices available to legislatures designing oversight infrastructure
• The role of state-level frameworks as proof points for federal and international regimes that do not yet exist
• The specific institutional patterns — including prover-verifier structures, reciprocity networks, chain-of-responsibility rules for AI agents, and anti-preemption defaults — that any serious AGI governance system will eventually require
Erika's perspective is distinctive because she is not theorizing about these questions — she is answering them in statute, and she can speak to what it takes to build governance infrastructure inside a real legislature with real political constraints while the underlying technology continues to accelerate.
About the Series:
Perspectives on AI is a virtual forum, open to the public, created by the AI Council of United World Leaders: Lives Amplified to cut through the noise and build genuine understanding of artificial intelligence. Each session brings in a leading expert, from researchers and builders to ethicists and policymakers, for candid conversation, not lectures. We'll tackle foundational concepts, emerging capabilities, ethical dilemmas, and real-world applications, all through the lens of what matters most to global leaders shaping policy, investment, and humanitarian efforts. The goal isn't to make you technical experts; it's to equip you with the clarity and vocabulary to lead confidently in an AI-transformed world. Come with questions, leave with perspective.
Zoom details to follow upon registration.
We look forward to seeing you there.
Russ Wilcox
Chairman, AI Council
United World Leaders: Lives Amplified
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