RIL’s Mukesh Ambani, Bharti Enterprises’ Sunil Mittal, among other leaders join ITU’s ‘AI for Good Global Commission’

Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani and Bharti Enterprises founder and chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal have joined the International Telecommunication Union’s (ITU) ‘AI for Good Global Commission’, alongside 38 other heads of state, technology leaders and policymakers.

The commission aims to promote the responsible development and adoption of artificial intelligence (AI), with a key focus on bridging the digital divide and ensuring that AI benefits are accessible to the 2.2 billion people who remain offline.

The AI for Good Global Commission builds on the work of the ITU-UNESCO Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development, which has played a key role in advancing global priorities related to connectivity, digital inclusion and economic development.

The commission also includes the director general of the GSMA, the chief executive officers of Nvidia, Accenture, Amazon, Qualcomm, Vodafone and ZTE, as well as the vice chair and president of Microsoft and the president for research, labs, technology and society at Google and Alphabet, among other global technology and policy leaders.