World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization (WAICO) was established in July 2026 in China. It aims to discuss AI for the Global South, especially making AI open source and open-weight, so the South can keep up with rapid AI developments. WAICO’s main aim is to expand AI to the Global South. It aims to develop the Global South with AI helping in development, not just in use.
China proposed WAICO in July 2025, but it took one year to formalize. The USA is not part of WAICO. So which countries are part of WAICO? The USA and its allies are part of Pax Silica, founded in Dec 2025, a similar pact that looks not just at AI but also at the minerals that form the essence of AI and tech, including chips, semiconductors, and rare earth elements. We all know that the USA did not allow rare earth mining in its own lands, and China is the sole producer of rare earth elements. These elements are the backbone of today’s technological advances.
Pax Silica wanted to ensure that the supply chains for today’s tech and AI are secure. Pax Silica on one side and WAICO on the other side. When would the world be one? Given Iran is a sponsor of WAICO, the USA won’t join it and won’t let US allies join WAICO too. So it seems like WAICO would remain a Global South organization; then why the word “World” in WAICO? The UN Secretary-General attended the WAICO founding ceremony, but that didn’t make it a world organization.
Pax Silica, by its very foundation, aims to be independent of China for its AI and tech needs. This divides the world into two big parts that are disjoint, and both discuss AI in depth. Both groups emerged around the same time, but with competing aims. One asks the West to open source, as China’s Xi Jinping has openly asked the world to make models open source, while we all know the top U.S. AI companies are not open source as of now. Pax Silica wants to be independent of China for its rare-earth and tech needs.
What if one day both agree to join together? Together as what? We can’t keep making new groups! So would the USA one day join WAICO? The answer is no. Is it the USA’s ego that keeps it from joining WAICO? No, they said it’s for the Global South, so the USA is not invited to WAICO anyway. And China can’t join Pax Silica, because Pax aims to be independent of China in the demands of the modern world. Where does it lead to? To nowhere!
The AI World Organisation is there with around 5000 world leaders, mainly focusing on Europe and Asia-Pacific, again not an umbrella covering the whole world AI issues. Its mainly for AI adoption and governance. There are issues more than that that need to be discussed as in WAICO and Pax Silica.
We, as a world, need to co-operate. Who can unite the world? Not Iran! Not China! Then we need UNO to create an AI department under its authority, as WAICO and Paz Silica are rivals that divide the world into two parts. UNO, we need a global AI organization, not WAICO, which just wants the development of the Global South, or Pax Silica, which just wants to secure the Western world for its needs of a techy world.
We need more; we need an organization to which all countries of the world are answerable. That the organization ensures rare earths are available to all people in all countries. That the Global South is developed and that the North is not betrayed or blackmailed for rare earths and semiconductors. That the fight over Taiwan’s fabrication ends and Taiwan becomes an independent decision-maker, with its production fairly distributed by the UNO organization. The West would not recognize WAICO as a valid organization, as the Global South won’t accept Pax Silica as one. We need this global organization to look after the rights of all countries in AI. It should not have stringent laws like the EU AI Act. At the same time, as the UNO human rights team works, the UNO AI team must work diligently toward the prosperity of all countries involved. All countries must send their AI ministers to this UNO organization to address their AI issues, needs, and deliverables. Open source or not can be discussed there. Towards a better future for all.
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