A/80/278 concrete measures to correct the course and protect the spaces, time and conditions necessary for the protection and exercise of human creative potential. 69. The Special Rapporteur recommends international, national and local levels: that Governments, at the (a) Ensure that national and international AI regulatory frameworks explicitly and effectively respect, protect and fulfil cultural rights; (b) Reaffirm the value of human creativity and adopt measures that ensure the recognition and visibility of works created by humans, particularly in environments where AI-generated content proliferates; (c) Take measures to ensure the right of meaningful participation of all affected individuals and groups, including through free, prior and informed consent, consent-based protocols and ethical guidelines, in all matters relating to AI, and protect traditional creative expressions and Indigenous knowledge systems from unauthorized or inappropriate use by AI systems; (d) Ensure that public funding and cultural policies actively support a diversity of creative expressions, including those that do not rely on AI technologies; (e) Protect and promote data sovereignty in the cultural field, as individual and collective authors must retain control over how their data is collected, stored, used and shared in AI systems; (f) Strengthen legislative and regulatory frameworks to guarantee the protection of right holders’ moral and material interests when their works are used to train AI models, including through transparency requirements; (g) Adopt robust legal and technical safeguards to prevent the non-consensual use of artists’ biometric data by AI systems and to regulate the creation and use of synthetic replicas; (h) Ensure that AI systems are never allowed to develop without human intervention, and ensure that multidisciplinary and culturally diverse teams are considered a minimum measure to prevent and reduce bias in AI systems and processes; (i) Mitigate gender-based bias in AI systems by applying intersectional approaches, ensuring inclusive data sets and adopting safeguards that uphold the rights of women, girls and gender-diverse individuals, and correct detected discriminatory patterns; (j) Ensure child-sensitive AI governance by embedding children’s rights principles into AI design, with safeguards against data exploitation and identity stereotyping; (k) Adopt policies to ensure that recommendation, ranking and filtering systems uphold the right to access and discover a diversity of creative expressions, including those created by underrepresented groups; (l) Develop and disseminate educational resources and training programmes to strengthen the capacity of all, including technology personnel, to understand, use and critically engage with AI systems; (m) Stimulate and fund research initiatives aimed at documenting and analysing the effects of AI technologies on human creativity; 20/21 25-12403