About

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.

He co-created India AI i in 2018, which has now grew into India’s National AI Mission — one of the most significant government-backed AI initiatives in the developing world.

Currently he leads the Responsible Computing Challenge in India at the Mozilla Foundation, working with universities to embed human-centered AI principles into the next generation of technologists as well as to rethink what education means in the age of AI. As a Responsible AI Fellow at the Stimson Center, in partnership with Microsoft’s Office of Responsible AI, he examines how AI harms and benefits play out across developing nations.

His international work spans across the OECD Working Party on AI Governace, the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on AI, and the Global Partnership on AI (GPAI). He is currently an advisor to UNESCO’s AI Ethics MOOC, and the founding editorial board of Springer Nature’s AI and Ethics Journal. He was previously a Fellow of the Atlantic Council’s AI Connect Program and a member of the OECD Expert Group on AI Classification and Risk.

Through his nonprofit Codosapiens, he works to protect endangered languages and cultures from erasure in the age of generative AI. His forthcoming book, The New Divide (Westland Books, Spring 2026), is a ground-level account of what happens when AI innovation serves profit over people. In 2025, he was honored on MIT Sloan Management Review India’s Tech/100 list.

Before his policy career, Jibu was a senior technology journalist at the Times of India Group. He holds an M.Sc. in Theory and History of International Relations from the London School of Economics.