The Resolution on the Need for Democratic Governance of Artificial Intelligence was adopted in response to concerns that AI technologies, while offering social and economic benefits, pose significant risks to democracy, human rights, and political stability. It calls for a cross-cutting, legally binding framework grounded in the Council of Europe’s standards, ensuring transparency, fairness, accountability, and human oversight while preventing misuse of AI for manipulation, surveillance, or electoral interference. By urging democratic oversight of both States and private actors, the Resolution established the political foundation for the CAHAI process and the subsequent Framework Convention on AI and Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law (CETS 225).