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Artificial Intelligence

Enhance and reshape

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the biggest innovation since the internet. It is set to unleash growth, enhance human productivity, impact resource allocation and drive societal change. AI is here.

Generative AI represents a fundamental, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to change how we operate. Building on the strong foundations we have in place, the transformative capabilities of AI will help us to deliver for our clients and increase our productivity across the Group. This is a transformation focused on security, efficiency and strategic growth.
Mike Dargan, Group Chief Operations and Technology Officer, UBS

AI at UBS

Our approach

We aim to become an AI-first institution where all benefit from AI tooling, and where we are building AI-powered capabilities to maximize impact for our clients, employees and shareholders in a responsible and sustainable way.

Building on more than a decade of experience in this field, our AI strategy is focused on two key pillars: reshaping business capabilities for our clients and enhancing everyday productivity for our employees. 

For example, we have created ‘Red’, a UBS AI Assistant, which integrates our extensive information library making our institutional knowledge readily accessible to our employees in order to better serve our clients.

Governance

AI requires holistic governance from ideation to design, development, ethics, training, deployment, and monitoring.

Our firm-wide approach to the governance aims to ensures our use of AI is safe, sustainable and always in the best interests of our clients.

All employees are required to undergo training on the responsible use of generative AI, with additional training provided on an ongoing basis to specialists.  

Talent

We are committed to attracting, developing, and retaining top AI talent while equipping our employees with the AI tools they need to thrive.

Our strategic focus on talent, education, and academia offers countless opportunities for our employees to enhance their skills. Our culture of continuous learning is crucial to ensuring we remain at the forefront of emerging technology. Our internal certification programs and knowledge sharing guilds focused on AI provide a platform for thousands of employees across the globe to learn, share and grow. 

Partnerships

Building strategic partnerships is at the heart of our approach. As AI technology evolves, our partnerships with technology companies, fintechs and academia are key to helping drive research and advancing solutions.

Find out more on how we work with fintech partners to stay at the forefront of AI innovation. 

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