Google DeepMind COO: How To Make AI Accessible To The Entire World

Google DeepMind COO Lila Ibrahim outlines a vision of AI that is built for the entire world, not just a few markets. She stresses that accessibility must be woven into AI development from the very beginning — from multilingual data to multimodal interaction that lowers barriers for new users. Ibrahim highlights work underway in Singapore, where DeepMind is collaborating to ensure Southeast Asian languages are properly represented and supported. By fine-tuning open-source models with local ecosystems and focusing on last-mile access, the aim is to make AI tools genuinely global and inclusive. From speech, text and images to multilingual outputs, she argues that true accessibility begins with designing AI that reflects the diversity of the people who will use it.