I’m excited to be in Lima, Peru for the Asia-Pacific Financial Cooperation (APEC) Financial Leaders’ Week. Google has lengthy been a powerful supporter of APEC and we’re deeply dedicated to increasing the advantages of technological progress — and particularly, synthetic intelligence — to the almost 3 billion individuals of this fast-growing area.
In his latest speech to the UN, our CEO Sundar Pichai mentioned AI’s historic potential to speed up broad-based financial progress, in addition to the foremost investments we’re making in digital instruments and infrastructure. Nowhere is that extra true than throughout APEC economies, the place we’re constructing the first-ever intercontinental subsea cables that join Asia Pacific and South America, and Australia and Africa. We’re additionally linking our AI infrastructure investments globally to a $120 million AI Alternative Fund to empower staff and college students and shut the digital divide.
What has all the time distinguished APEC from different international fora is its give attention to public-private partnerships. In no sector are partnerships extra vital or impactful than know-how. That’s why eventually yr’s APEC assembly, we launched the AI Alternative Agenda to show how governments, corporations, and civil society can work collectively to seize AI’s historic financial potential. AI could be a catapult for economies to drive competitiveness and nationwide improvement, and right now we’re sharing a top-level transient on the progress we’re already seeing in AI Pioneers: How APEC Economies are Seizing the AI Opportunity.
This new transient shares steps governments can take to draw AI funding, together with:
- Making a supportive surroundings for funding in AI infrastructure, together with cloud, subsea cables, compute capability, and information.
- Guaranteeing that staff throughout all sectors of the economic system are ready to make use of AI, together with by new approaches to workforce coaching and modern deployment of AI throughout the general public sector, conventional industries and small companies.
- Crafting regulatory and authorized frameworks to spur innovation and AI-driven competitiveness, stop regulatory fragmentation, and guarantee AI helps profit everybody.
We’re grateful to Peru for internet hosting APEC this yr. As Google marks our 14th yr within the nation, to assist speed up digital transformation, Google.org is awarding a grant of $560,000 to Kodea, a non-profit that may assist 50,000 academics and college students in Peru’s public colleges obtain AI literacy and profit from the rising tide of technological progress. And to assist have a good time Peru’s heritage, Google Arts & Tradition is launching a brand new assortment with Peru’s Nationwide Library to have a good time the Wonders of Peru.
APEC’s theme this yr is “Empower. Embrace. Develop.” As leaders take up that mantle in Peru this week, we’re proud to be contributing to a forward-looking agenda round AI, financial progress and competitiveness.
