Enabling Artificial Intelligence for the Sustainable Development Goals and Closing Digital Divides: A Strategic Framework for Global Governance in the Neural Age (Vol-I) Dr. Syed Muntasir Mamun

https://www.academia.edu/165212655/Enabling_Artificial_Intelligence_for_the_Sustainable_Development_Goals_and_Closing_Digital_Divides_A_Strategic_Framework_for_Global_Governance_in_the_Neural_Age_Vol_I_?rhid=43867539958&swp=rr-rw-wc-180521009&nav_from=5420982e-ae8b-48a5-996d-981eca57f032 The document presents a strategic framework for global governance in the "Neural Age," arguing that the hyper-concentration of algorithmic capacity and pervasive epistemic biases threaten to entrench a new paradigm of "cognitive colonialism," despite the profound potential of artificial intelligence (AI) to advance the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The international community faces an urgent imperative to transition from static, reactive regulatory postures toward adaptive, "fluid institutions" capable of harmonizing technological velocity with human dignity. This academic analysis, structured pursuant to the objectives of the UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance, systematically deconstructs seven critical dimensions of AI deployment. By synthesizing insights from global regulatory landscapes and vanguard Global South resistance movements like the Digital Bandung and Brazil’s judicial AI safeguards, the report delineates a strategic blueprint for "Managed Interdependence". This blueprint requires operationalizing decentralized physical infrastructure, asserting semantic sovereignty, and institutionalizing robust human oversight—such as the "Reserve of Humanity" doctrine—to recalibrate the algorithmic ecosystem to serve the collective interests of humanity and definitively close the global digital divide.