EY forms Global AI Advisory Council made of AI thought leaders

Big Four firm EY announced the formation of its new EY.ai Global AI Advisory Council, in support of EY.ai, the unifying AI platform that launched in September 2023. This council will act as a sounding board for the organization as it manages the extensive scale of AI deployments and constant rate of the technology’s advancement.

Overall, the AI Council will focus its guidance and input across three domains:

1. Directing AI development and deployment within the EY organization and its affiliated entities across the globe by sharing insights on how the technology is developing, including breakthroughs and emerging risks.
2. Helping EY professionals serve their clients’ transformations and how they deploy AI in their organizations, as well as assessing the EY organization on broader AI powered industry transformation and verticalization.
3. Working to address global challenges through innovative uses of AI, including climate change, health and wellness, education, the digital divide, or access to tools by marginalized groups and societies, etc., while also working to mitigate risks to people and society.

The council will be led by Raj Sharma, EY Global Managing Partner of Growth and Innovation, as well as Gil Forer, Digital and Business Disruption Leader for the EY organization.
“The astonishing pace of change being driven by AI demands that organizations proactively collaborate with a wide variety of AI leaders to stay ahead of the curve and shape their future with confidence. The EY organization is no different – being guided by focused knowledge from different backgrounds is essential for leading-edge innovation and helping clients manage ethical and security risks, regulatory compliance and responsible leading practices,” said Sharma.

Other council members are drawn from a pool of AI-focused researchers, entrepreneurs, academics, ethicists and policy professionals. Together, council members will provide insights into AI trends and their human implications, guiding governments and organizations on structuring and restructuring their models.

In addition to EY leaders Sharma and Forer, inaugural members of the EY.ai Global AI Advisory Council include:

• Rotem Alaluf, Founder and CEO, Wand AI
• Maurice Conti, AI Futurist, Founder and CEO, Applied Intelligence
• David De Cremer, Dunton Family Dean of D’Amore-McKim School of Business, Northeastern University, and founder of the Centre on AI Technology for Humankind (AiTH) at the National University of Singapore
• Daniel Dines, Founder and CEO, UiPath
• Nathanael Fast, Associate Professor of Management & Organization and Director of the Neely Center for Ethical Leadership and Decision Making at the USC Marshall School of Business
• Kate Kallot, Founder and CEO, Amini
• Clara Neppel, Senior Director, European Business Operations, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• Sunita Sarawagi, Computer Science professor and Founding Head, Center for Machine Intelligence and Data Science (CMInDS), IIT Bombay
• Shannon Vallor, Professor of Ethics of Data and AI, University of Edinburgh
• Ashish Vaswani, CEO and Co-founder, Essential AI

The announcement comes around the same time that EY announced its GenAI insights platform ‘EY Competitive Edge,’ a proprietary intelligence cloud-based platform that generates real-time tailored insights on markets, companies and sectors at pace.