The SOPHIA AI Ethics Manifesto, developed under the auspices of the Hungarian National Commission for UNESCO, is inspired by Béla Bartók’s call to seek the “pure, fresh and healthy source”. It places analogue-first practices, narrative and digital-cultural sovereignty, and participatory, co-creative AI at its heart. The Manifesto calls for AI systems to be designed as companions rather than extractive machines, serving community wisdom, dignity and peace – at locally and planetary scale.

UNESCO is the only UN Agency to have a global network of national cooperating bodies known as National Commissions for UNESCO. National Commissions make part of the overall constitutional architecture of the Organization.