Geneva (Urdu Point / Pakistan Point News / WAM – March 18, 2026) world The Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has launched the Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Exchange (AIII), a new expert dialogue initiative on IP and AI issues that will focus on technical and operational issues and complement ongoing discussions in other WIPO forums.
More than 1,700 participants – incl government Ministers, industry Leaders in the field of AI and IP as well as other stakeholders have registered to join the launch It happened Held on Monday at WIPO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.
“Artificial intelligence has the potential to change the nature of innovation and creativity,” said Darren Tang, Director General of WIPO, in his opening remarks. “This poses challenges to the global IP ecosystem, but it also gives us an opportunity to identify and seize new opportunities.”
“History shows that new technologies only reach their full potential when the systems surrounding them evolve as well. Railways transformed economies once networks became interoperable. music The broadcast size was changed once industry Build the metadata and rights infrastructure needed for content to move efficiently through the digital ecosystem. Artificial intelligence is now going through a similar moment, Tang said.
“By building strong and healthy infrastructure networks, we can help AI realize its potential in creating new opportunities while supporting, empowering and empowering human innovators and creators,” he added.
Conversations involving creators, rights holders, developers, technical experts and others will revolve around issues such as making data accessible at scale, standards for identification and attribution, watermarking, fingerprinting, rights management, and even using artificial intelligence to address intellectual property enforcement and infrastructure.
To support the detailed technical-level discussions envisaged for AIII, a technical meeting was held exchange The network is assembled with more than 90 experts from Dozens of countries, extending technology Companies, AI developers, rights holders, individual creators, academia and Civil society.
This global network of experts will initially focus on conducting a first-of-its-kind mapping of existing copyright infrastructure and emerging technical challenges and opportunities. from The intersection of artificial intelligence and the creative economy. the results From these maps you will Driving To identify target areas for further work.