As IBMers, we believe in leveraging technology to
make a transformative impact on business and
society. At the same time, rapid advances in
powerful technologies like AI must be balanced by
responsible scaling and deployment strategies. Last
year, IBM released watsonx.governance™, an end-toend toolkit for AI governance that enables
responsible, transparent and explainable AI
workflows. In addition, IBM and Meta announced the formation of the AI Alliance, a group of more than seventy industry and academic leaders joining
together to advance open, safe and responsible AI.
We recognize that promoting equitable access to AI
skills is also crucial to tomorrow's workforce.
Internally, we created the watsonx™ challenge for
IBMers around the world to grow their knowledge
through hands-on experience in AI for business.
Externally, we announced a new goal to train 2
million learners in AI skills by the end of 2026
through expanded education collaborations and new generative AI coursework on IBM SkillsBuild®. We have already engaged over 11 million learners on our platforms, evidence of the substantial progress we've made towards our goal to train 30 million people by 2030.
We also applied technology in new ways to make our world's essential systems more efficient and
sustainable. We expanded the IBM Sustainability
Accelerator program, which leverages AI and other
leading-edge technologies to help populations
vulnerable to environmental threats. In addition to
clean energy and agriculture projects, the initiative
grew to include water and city resiliency projects and earned the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation Citizens Award for “Best Sustainability Program.” In addition, last year we beat our 2025 target for reducing IBM’s operational GHG emissions, a solid milestone towards our goal of net-zero operational GHG emissions by 2030.