UN considers AI impact on developing countries, canvasses collaboration

Leaders from government, manufacture and the planetary artificial quality assemblage took bold steps towards making AI much inclusive astatine the AI for Good Global Summit successful Geneva, Switzerland.

At the event, which was held astatine the weekend, a bid of actions, commitments and caller initiatives reflected a strengthened diverseness of viewpoints and the imaginativeness of International Telecommunications Union (ITU), the UN Agency for Digital Technologies – to marque AI enactment for the bully of all.

ITU, on with 40 UN partners, stressed the request to see each perspectives, particularly those of processing countries, successful discussions connected the planetary integer future.

ITU Secretary-General Doreen Bogdan-Martin, said: “All voices request to beryllium astatine the AI table. At this decisive infinitesimal for the aboriginal of planetary cooperation, the AI for Good Global Summit sets the way for inclusive AI governance, the combat against AI-driven disinformation, and rescuing the SDGs.”

She said the ITU’s AI for Good platform, established by ITU successful 2017, identifies applicable applications of AI to accelerate advancement toward the SDGs. It besides connects AI innovators with nationalist and private-sector decision-makers to assistance standard up AI solutions globally.

According to her, astatine AI Governance Day, ITU and UNESCO launched UN Activities connected AI, a compilation of much than 400 projects by 47 UN agencies addressing each 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

To boost the development, a concern announced betwixt ITU and the United Nations University aims to pat into the wealthiness of cognition wrong the AI for Good community, including astir 10,000 AI experts from world institutions astir the world.

The resulting flagship study volition connection this expertise arsenic a assets for stakeholders, helping them make innovative solutions and marque informed decisions arsenic they navigate the evolving satellite of AI.

Further, the world’s starring planetary standards organizations – ITU, the International Organisation for Standardization (ISO), and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) announced a unified model for AI standards development, highlighting the propulsion to construe AI governance principles into practical, actionable standards.

Besides, a caller multi-stakeholder inaugural was besides announced to enactment coordinated standards improvement for AI watermarking, multimedia authenticity, and deepfake detection.
This concern includes the Content Authenticity Initiative, Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity, Internet Engineering Task Force, IEC, ISO, and ITU.

The AI for Good Impact Initiative launched astatine the acme aimed to grow the scope and interaction of AI applications for sustainable development.
The inaugural volition nexus AI innovators with opportunities to standard and money promising AI solutions for each SDG arsenic crossed each region.