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Useful background reference for understanding industry-led AI governance initiatives and the landscape of voluntary coordination bodies that emerged prior to more formal regulatory efforts.
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Wikipedia article on the Partnership on AI (PAI), a multi-stakeholder organization founded in 2016 by major tech companies and civil society groups to study and formulate best practices on AI technologies. PAI aims to advance the responsible development and deployment of AI for the benefit of people and society. It serves as a neutral forum for research, discussion, and policy recommendations on AI safety and ethics.
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- •Founded in 2016 by Amazon, Apple, DeepMind, Facebook, Google, IBM, and Microsoft as a nonprofit multi-stakeholder initiative.
- •Focuses on responsible AI development, including safety, fairness, transparency, and accountability in AI systems.
- •Brings together industry, academic, civil society, and policy organizations to collaborate on AI governance challenges.
- •Produces research, guidelines, and frameworks intended to shape best practices across the AI industry.
- •Represents an early major industry-led effort at voluntary self-governance and coordination on AI safety concerns.
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| Entity | Property | Value | As Of |
|---|---|---|---|
| Partnership on AI | Country | United States | — |
| Partnership on AI | Founded Date | Sep 2016 | — |
| Partnership on AI | Headquarters | San Francisco, California | — |
| Partnership on AI | founding-members | Amazon, Facebook (Meta), Google, DeepMind, Microsoft, IBM | Sep 2016 |
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Partnership on Artificial Intelligence to Benefit People and Society , otherwise known as Partnership on AI (PAI), is a nonprofit coalition committed to the responsible use of artificial intelligence . Coming into inception in September 2016, PAI grouped together organizations from over 90 companies and non-profits in order to explore best practice recommendations for the tech community. [ 1 ]
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The Partnership on AI was publicly announced on September 28, 2016, with founding members Amazon , Facebook , Google , DeepMind , Microsoft , and IBM , with interim co-chairs Eric Horvitz of Microsoft Research and Mustafa Suleyman of DeepMind. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] In 2024, the Partnership reported that it included 126 partner organizations from academia, civil society, and industry based in 16 countries. [ 6 ]
In January 2017, the Apple head of advanced development for Siri , Tom Gruber , joined the partnership on AI's board. [ 7 ] In October 2017, Terah Lyons joined the Partnership on AI as the organization's founding executive director. [ 8 ] Lyons brought to the organization her expertise in technology governance , with a specific focus in machine intelligence, AI, and robotics policy, having formerly served as Policy Advisor to the United States Chief Technology Officer Megan Smith . Lyons was succeeded by Partnership on AI board member Rebecca Finlay as interim executive director. Finlay was named CEO of Partnership on AI on October 26, 2021.
In October 2018, Baidu became the first Chinese firm to join the Partnership. [ 9 ]
In November 2020 the Partnership on AI announced the AI Incident Database (AIID), [ 10 ] which is a tool to identify, assess, manage, and communicate AI risk and harm.
In August 2021, the Partnership on AI submitted a response to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The response provided examples of PAI's work related to AI
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