| On UNGA Day 2
Denmark Bloviates on AI with
Dario and Sam While Delaying
FOIA
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack UN
GATE / SDNY, Sept 23 – For this
2026 UN General Assembly, the
last of Antonio Guterres'
desultory tenure, Inner City
Press banned
by Guterres applied
on July 25 to re-enter and
cover the speeches and section
of next UNSG. No response. On
September 20 UN Spokesperson
Stephane Dujarric had Inner
City Press removed even from a
Zoom briefing, video here. So
Inner City Press will cover it
from the gate. Foreign
Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen
addressed the Security Council
on Tuesday, at a session on
artificial intelligence
convened by France, reading
speech full of allusion to
transparency, accountability,
evidence. "Governance
and regulation of AI are high
on Denmark's agenda, including
regulation of large tech
companies," Rasmussen told the
Council. Inner City
Press has spent the past two
weeks testing exactly that
pledge against Denmark's own
conduct, requesting records —
under Denmark's own
Offentlighedsloven —
concerning the Foreign
Ministry's positions and
communications on AI
governance, among other
subjects. The Ministry's
response has not modeled the
accountability, evidence, or
civil-society engagement
Rasmussen described to the
Council. On September 15,
it invoked Section 9(2)(1) of
its own transparency law,
claiming the request would
impose a "disproportionate
expenditure of resources," and
demanded narrowing, with a
deadline of September 17 — the
same day as a Security Council
straw poll on the next
Secretary-General. Inner City
Press agreed to narrow the
date range, "solely because
the Ministry has invoked
Section 9(2)(1)," while noting
the accepted categories were
"the categories you are
apparently trying to avoid,"
and separately asked the
Ministry to produce, at
minimum, the index of
documents its own search had
already located, a request
that, as of this writing,
remains unanswered.
Rasmussen's own speech supplies the sharpest test of his Ministry's conduct: "science and evidence must always inform our policies," he said, of AI governance generally. The evidence of how his own Ministry handles a specific, concrete request for its own records is now a matter of public record too. Watch this site. More on X for
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Friday, October 9, 2026
On UNGA Day 2 Denmark Bloviates on AI with Dario and Sam While Delaying FOIA
