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AI Standards for Global Impact: From Governance to Action

21�3 Standardization gaps and needs

Speakers identified priority areas where standards are needed:
• Definitions and taxonomy Part 3: Future AI
• Component-level clarity on building blocks and interoperability
• Simulation-to-reality gap: Bridging synthetic training data and real-world environments.
• Benchmarks: Application-oriented benchmarks are needed to reflect real-world
requirements.
• Socio-technical standards: IIn addition to technical specifications, standards development
should consider socio-technical dimensions such as human rights,

Standardization activities of ITU-T on embodied AI is shown in Box 5 below, including standards
under development and published.

21�4 Collaboration across standards bodies

Participants agreed that international collaboration is essential and made for:

• Multistakeholder inclusion, with startups, emerging companies, academia, and civil society
engaging alongside large institutions.
• Parallel pre-standardization discussions supporting formal standards-development
processes.
• The consideration of human rights, privacy, dignity, children’s rights, and accessibility
alongside technical discussions.
• accessibility, and environmental impact.

Box 5: ITU standardization activities on embodied AI

ITU-T Study Groups are actively engaged in standardization work on and related to
embodied AI. Information about related published standards and ongoing work items
are provided below.

ITU-T Study Group 2

ITU-T Study Group 2 has published two ITU-T Recommendations related to embodied
AI.
• Recommendation ITU-T M.3167.1 (03�2025)
With the continuous development of Internet of things (IoT) technology,
the application of intelligent maintenance robots (IMRs) in the field of
telecommunication smart maintenance (TSM) is increasing. Recommendation
ITU-T M.3167.1 provides the requirements for the interface between the IMR-
based smart patrol system (IbSPS) and the telecommunication smart maintenance
system (TSMS) at a protocol-neutral level. It describes the position of the relevant
interface and specifies the high-level requirements for interface interaction, as
well as specification level use cases for each requirement.

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