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Press Conference: UN Secretary-General, together with Amandeep Gill, Under-Secretary-General and Special Envoy for Digital and Emerging Technologies on the Independent International Scientific Panel on Artificial Intelligence Watch the Press Conference: UN Secretary-General, together with Amandeep Gill, Under-Secretary-General and Special Envoy for Digital and Emerging Technologies on the Independent International Scientific Panel on Artificial Intelligence! Press Conferences

AI is reshaping the way the  United Nations  serves people and planet. The projects highlighted in this annual report reflect our shared conviction that #AIforGood is no longer a distant aspiration; it is a present-day imperative within and beyond the United Nations. Explore how to leverage the potential of AI to advance #GlobalGoals in this new compendium of #AIforGood use cases, projects and initiatives

There are a number of pre-standardization initiatives , open to everyone, called ITU-T Focus Groups that work for the quick development of specifications to address industry needs as they emerge on various aspects of AI: including digital agriculture, disaster management, health, autonomous networks, and the metaverse. ITU-T Study Groups , that are open to all ITU members, also address aspects of AI and machine learning within their mandates. The work has so far resulted in ITU-T Recommendations and Supplements as well as deliverables from the various ITU-T Focus Groups . There is also ongoing work within ITU-R on this topic of  AI in STANDARDIZATION .

    The Global Initiative on AI and DataCommons is a program and collaborative platform to  Support the implementation of beneficial AI-based solutions to accelerate progress towards the 2030 Agenda for  Sustainable Development Goals . It is now initiating a public collaborative effort named “ Project Resilience ”. The vision, in  The continuity of efforts towards AI for the common good , is to create a public AI service where a global community of innovators and thought leaders can enhance and utilize a collection of data and AI approaches both in the context of the current pandemic and for similar future challenges. The goal is to collaboratively Design and build an open AI system that could inform and help tackle globaldecision-augmentation problems .