Jerome Glenn Publishes New Article on AGI Governance in The Club of Rome

Jerome C. Glenn, newly welcomed as a member of The Club of Rome, has published an urgent and influential article titled “Urgency of Creating Governance of Artificial General Intelligence.”

In the piece, released on 27 November 2025, Glenn warns that humanity may face artificial general intelligence (AGI) within five to ten years, an intelligence greater than its own, and stresses that current global regulations do not yet address this transformational challenge. While countries and international institutions have begun to legislate on AI, Glenn argues that none sufficiently confront the unique risks of AGI and artificial superintelligence (ASI).

Drawing from his new book, Global Governance of the Transition to Artificial General Intelligence, Glenn outlines insights from AGI experts, governance models, regulatory proposals, and future scenarios that frame both the extraordinary opportunities and existential risks ahead. He calls for immediate global action, including a UN General Assembly session dedicated exclusively to AGI, a Global AGI Observatory to monitor progress and provide early security warnings, international best practices and certification systems for safe and trustworthy AGI, a UN Framework Convention on AGI, and a feasibility study for a UN AGI Agency.

Glenn stresses that managing the transition from today’s narrow AI to AGI is the most complex governance challenge humanity has ever faced—comparable to nuclear deterrence during the Cold War.

His article reflects a growing global consensus: without coordinated action, humanity could lose control over systems more intelligent than itself; with the right governance, AGI could vastly advance human flourishing, sustainability, and peace.

The full article is available on The Club of Rome blog.