At the Democratic AI Governance webinar co-organised by
@ClubdeMadrid and Regulating AI, @PreetamMaloor, Head of the Emerging Technologies Division at the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), offered a striking benchmark for understanding the scale of what is unfolding.
The internet took seven years to reach 100 million users. ChatGPT did it in two months.
That single data point, Maloor argued, signals something more significant than another technology cycle. AI is becoming foundational infrastructure — reshaping economies, governance systems, labor markets, education, health, and security. It is changing how societies form trust and make decisions.
And that, he said, is precisely why governance matters.
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