AI will be an inevitable component of our future telecommunication networks, through all the elements in the telecoms chain. Unwanted misbehaviour of AI should be avoided, and people should be taken care of, for which security is a must and testing will be fundamental to ensure compliance. Global cooperation and coordination in standards are key to enable a healthy growth of AI. ETSI is fully committed and contributes to all the steps.

Artificial Intelligence will influence many aspects of life.  In manufacturing, it will have deep impact on quality, productivity, cost, efficiency, agility, safety, environmental and labor aspects of factories and supply chains.  When integrated with IoT sensors, actuators, edge computers, Internet, cloud and digital twins, powerful new capabilities result.  As with all disruptive technologies, AI has good and bad impacts. Organizations like OMG and GIO can help establish guiderails for AI.

In mobile industry, AI is having a profound impact on improving both connectivity and customers’ experience. Moreover, AI can better support UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. GSMA is taking pro-active industry leadership in driving sustainable development of AI, by providing common framework for international collaboration and by providing a strong governance structure and a self-assessment tool to bridge the gap between ethical principles and business practice. The industries, international communities and organizations need to work together to ensure the sustainable development of AI, which AI operates reliably, responsibly and fairly for everyone, and leaves no one behind.

The benefits of AI are becoming increasingly clear. But people and businesses are concerned about the risks. Fortunately, responses to the common risks such as lack of transparency, bias and security are being developed around the world. These responses take various forms such as regulations and standards and these share many common characteristics across different countries and regions. Organisations like Global Digital Foundation are working on usable frameworks that build on these responses. These frameworks will build trust in AI and will allow providers of good AI to deliver much-needed benefits to their customers.

AI technologies are becoming increasingly important in autonomous driving industry. The Autoware Foundation has been taking proactive leadership in pushing forward open source strategy to widely address the concerns and solve problems by providing frameworks and platform for the community to develop autonomous driving system and utilize the new AI technologies.