Investor Webinar: Governance of Artificial Intelligence: What Does the Data Tell Us?

While Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly being integrated across companies’ products, services, and internal operations, corporate governance and disclosure are failing to keep pace. As privately developed or deployed AI systems increasingly shape daily life, transparency must move beyond technical descriptions to show how accountability functions in practice. This includes disclosing who makes and oversees decisions, how ethical issues are escalated, and what remediation measures exist when systems fail.  
 
On Tuesday, May 19th, the Investor Alliance for Human Rights hosted an investor webinar exploring the critical topic of AI data governance, “Corporate Governance of Artificial Intelligence: What Does the Data Tell Us?” 
 
The webinar featured the learnings from a new report by the Thomson Reuters Foundation and UNESCO: Responsible AI in Practice: 2025 Global Insights. The report examines corporate practice in the context of the emerging responsible AI regulatory landscape and analyzes publicly available data collected by the Thomson Reuters Foundation’s AI Company Data Initiative (AICDI), the largest global dataset of corporate responsible AI disclosures. Building on UNESCO’s Recommendation on the Ethics of AI, the AICDI provides a voluntary, globally relevant framework that enables companies to map AI use across their operations and supports investors to assess governance quality, risk management, and social impact.
 
We were joined by experts from the Thomson Reuters Foundation and UNESCO, who shared highlights from the report, discuss the AICDI’s first global findings drawing on the world’s largest dataset mapping corporate AI adoption, and offer early insight into where AI is most commonly deployed, the landscape of governance maturity, and where gaps and risks remain.
 
The webinar aimed to help investors:

• Gain a better understand of the key findings from AICDI and the current level of transparency in the private sector on AI governance disclosure
• Understand how the AICDI can support investors to assess governance quality, risk management, and social impact.
• Hear from investors on how they have utilized the AICDI in their investment analysis and decision making
• Understand how AICDI can facilitate effective engagement and collective stewardship around responsible AI.

Speakers included:

• Anita Dorett, Director, Investor Alliance for Human Rights (moderator)
• Katie Fowler, Director, Responsible Business, Thomson Reuters Foundation
• Ita McMahon, Head of Stewardship, Castlefield Investment Partners
• Lihui Xu, Programme Specialist, UNESCO

You can find a recording of the event, in addition to the slides presented on the webinar, below:

If you have any questions, please reach out to Anna Frader-Stefanovic. 

Image courtesy of the Thomson Reuters Foundation and UNESCO.