Eminent technology experts from India have been named to a new global advisory body announced by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to support the international community's efforts to govern artificial intelligence.

The High-Level Multistakeholder Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence, announced by the UN Chief on Thursday, brings together experts from government, the private sector, the research community, civil society, and academia and is focused on building a global scientific consensus on risks and challenges, helping harness AI for the Sustainable Development Goals, and strengthening international cooperation on AI governance, a statement said.

Among the members of the advisory body are the Secretary-General's Envoy on Technology Amandeep Singh Gill; co-founder of iSPIRT Foundation, a non-profit technology think tank that has conceptualized India Stack, Health Stack, and other digital public goods Sharad Sharma and Lead Researcher at Hugging Face, India Nazneen Rajani.

According to Mr Guterres, in our challenging times, AI could power extraordinary progress for humanity. In his opinion, AI could scale up and amplify the work of governments, civil society and the United Nations.

He added that AI offers the possibility of leapfrogging outdated technologies and bringing services directly to people whose needs are bigger in developing economies.

Before he was appointed the Secretary General's Envoy on Technology, Mr. Gill was the CEO of the International Digital Health and AI Research Collaborative project. Sharma also co-founded Teltier Technologies, a wireless infrastructure startup now part of CISCO. Rajani is the Research Lead at Hugging Face, specializing in AI Safety and Alignment, leveraging Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback (RLHF). Rajani earned her Doctorate in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin, where her research focused on Natural Language Processing (NLP) and the interpretability of Machine Learning models.

Source: PTI