Global AI fund needed to help developing nations tap tech benefits, UN says

The report recommends the creation of an accessible store of AI models and datasets that can help achieve the UN’s sustainable development goals. Photograph: Dado Ruvić/Reuters

Governments and private companies should contribute to a global artificial intelligence fund that will allow developing nations to benefit from advances in the technology, according to a UN report.

The fund would help provide models, computing power and AI-related training programmes, according to recommendations from the UN secretary general’s high-level AI advisory body.