Jibu Elias

Jibu Elias is an AI policy and governance researcher, writer, and one of the most credible independent voices on artificial intelligence in the Global South. He co-created India AI in 2018, which has now grown into India's National AI Mission.

Today 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 Governance, the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council on AI, the Global Partnership on AI (GPAI), Advisor to UNESCO's AI Ethics Module, and the founding editorial board of Springer Nature's AI and Ethics Journal. He was a Fellow of the Atlantic Council's AI Connect Program previously.

His first book, The New Divide: Power, Control and the Cost of AI (Westland Books, June 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. Through his nonprofit Codosapiens, he works to protect endangered languages and cultures from erasure in the age of generative AI. Before his policy career, Jibu was a senior journalist at the Times of India Group. He holds an M.Sc. in International Relations from the London School of Economics.