The companies will integrate the values and principles of UNESCO’s Recommendation on the Ethics of AI when designing and deploying AI systems.

UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay said that ¨In November 2021, UNESCO forged a consensus between all its Member States to adopt the first global ethical framework for the use of artificial intelligence. Today, we are taking another major step by obtaining the same concrete commitment from global tech companies. I call on all tech stakeholders to follow the example of these first eight companies. This alliance of the public and private sectors is critical to building AI for the common good¨.

UNESCO promotes rules for AI to benefit humanity and its development to guarantee protection of human rights, individual freedoms and the environment, inclusiveness and the fostering of peaceful and just societies.

The agreement with GSMA, INNIT, Lenovo Group, LG AI Research, Mastercard, Microsoft, Salesforce and Telefonica were signed in Kranj, Slovenia.

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