AI for Good Summit
For nearly a decade, AI Commons has participated in and helped shape the UN ITU's flagship annual convening on AI for sustainable development.
The original question: what should AI be for?
The AI for Good Summit series, hosted by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in Geneva, is one of the world's longest-running and most consequential forums on AI governance, safety, and sustainable development. It brings together governments, UN agencies, civil society, researchers, and industry to address the question that too many AI conversations avoid: not what AI can do, but what it should do.
AI Commons has been part of this conversation since the beginning first as participants, then as contributors of frameworks, and increasingly as partners in shaping the agenda itself.
From participant to framework contributor.
Over nearly a decade of engagement, AI Commons' role in the AI for Good ecosystem has evolved from participation to active framework contribution.
- 2018 Proposed the Data Commons concept as a key enabler for SDG-oriented AI, co-developed with XPRIZE, Ocean Protocol, and Berkman Klein Center
- 2019 Hosted the AI for All workshop at the summit; AI Commons formally announced as an organization
- 2019–2023 Workshop contributions across multiple summits on data governance, AI licensing, and responsible AI infrastructure
- 2023 Contributed to the WEF Presidio Recommendations on Responsible Generative AI, presented at the summit
- 2025–present Deepening engagement on AI as civilizational infrastructure requiring shared provenance and accountability standards
Join us at the next summit.
AI Commons participates in and around the AI for Good Summit annually. If you are working on AI governance, provenance, licensing, or accountability and want to connect at the summit, we want to hear from you.