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The Artificial Intelligence Divide is rapidly emerging as the most significant challenge facing nations and humanity's survival and development. The lack of sufficient academic responses, social attention, and global response mechanisms to the Artificial Intelligence Divide, swift and profound, will pose a significant threat to the global development process, particularly the realities of developing countries in regions such as Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The progress made by developing countries in narrowing the gap with developed countries over the years may potentially be reversed due to the Artificial Intelligence Divide, leading to a new “North-South problem” for the international community to confront. The access divide and literacy divide exhibit distinct endogenous characteristics, which can be effectively addressed through a series of holistic national developments, including overall economic growth and individual education. However, the Artificial Intelligence Divide has distinct exogenous characteristics, being an external and constructed gap, which necessitates improvement or resolution through enhanced technological governance, social governance, and global governance. Like other significant issues requiring joint efforts from the international community, the governance path of the Artificial Intelligence Divide will also involve collective action based on shared understanding. The urgency of the Artificial Intelligence Divide issue demands focused attention from all parties, with the United Nations taking a crucial step forward.