AI For Good

Driven by the rapid progress in Artificial Intelligence (AI) research, intelligent machines are gaining the ability to learn, improve and make calculated decisions in ways that will enable them to perform tasks previously thought to rely solely on human experience, creativity, and ingenuity. As a result, we will in the near future see large parts of our lives influenced by AI. Artificial Intelligence will be central to solving humanity's grand challenges. Solutions to pressing problems related to health and well-being, education, energy, environment, and other domains important to XPRIZE can be found by capitalizing on the unprecedented quantities of data and recent progress in emerging AI technologies. To support this mission to build a bridge to abundance for all, XPRIZE is, together with the United Nations (UN) specialized agency, the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), organized the inaugural AI for Good Global Summit, hosted at the ITU headquarters in Geneva Jun 7-9, 2017. This annual gathered government officials, UN agencies, NGOs, industry leaders, and AI experts to address how artificial intelligence can help achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and design a first series of strategies to provide context for future guidelines on ethical, technical, standardization, societal and policy issues related to AI.