Jibu Elias is an AI ethicist, researcher, and author whose work focuses on the real-world social, cultural, and political impacts of artificial intelligence. He is known for bridging global AI policy debates with on-the-ground realities, bringing the voices of workers, educators, and marginalized communities into conversations often dominated by technical and corporate perspectives.
Jibu is the co-creator and former Head of Research at India AI, where he helped shape the country’s AI policy ecosystem. He is widely recognised as the foremost authority on India’s AI ecosystem.
Today, he works independently through nonprofit initiatives and international fellowships, including as India Country Lead for the Mozilla Foundation’s Responsible Computing Challenge, an Expert Member of the OECD Working Party on AI Governance, and a Responsible AI Fellow at The Stimson Center (in partnership with Microsoft’s Office of Responsible AI).
He is also a Founding Editorial Board Member of AI and Ethics (Springer Nature) and an advisor to UNESCO’s Global MOOC on AI Ethics. His forthcoming book, The New Divide (Westland Books, 2026), examines AI-driven inequality, misinformation, and cultural erasure from a Global South perspective.
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