We have supported newsrooms in South Africa to harness the benefits of AI, while ensuring that core journalistic standards remain intact.
Building a dataset on corporate AI adoption to drive transparency and promote responsible business practices.


The AI Company Data Initiative (AICDI) helps businesses to map their AI use, harness opportunities and mitigate operational risk.
Businesses across the globe are rapidly adopting AI tools to innovate and improve efficiency. Yet without due diligence, companies’ use of AI could pose material risk, as well as human rights implications and environmental impacts. Through a voluntary survey, we support companies of all sizes to assess how AI is embedded in their operations, products and services.
We provide a benchmark of AI policies and practices. This allows companies to maximise the potential of this technology while minimising risks to people and planet.
By guiding companies to map their AI adoption, the AI Company Data Initiative also enables them to get ahead of the curve of incoming laws and audits.
Powered by the Thomson Reuters Foundation and grounded in UNESCO’s Recommendation on the Ethics of AI, the AICDI is building a comprehensive global dataset to drive responsible corporate AI adoption, for the benefit of all.
Find out more about participating in the AICDI. Benchmark your use of AI, get ahead of the curve, and demonstrate your leadership in transparent, responsible AI governance.
Join the coalition of leading institutional, private equity and venture capital investors pushing companies to become
pioneers in responsible AI.
There is currently limited data available on how companies are using AI tools, and what this means for people, society and the environment. A more transparent approach to AI adoption can drive best practice, create a benchmark for companies and investors, and ensure the technology is used for the benefit of all.
Through a voluntary survey, the AI Company Data Initiative guides companies to map how their organisation is using AI across products, operations and services. The survey covers factors including:
It is grounded in UNESCO’s Recommendation on the Ethics of AI, the first global standard on AI use.
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Emerging technologies have a major impact in many areas, including the exercise of certain human rights such as freedom of expression and access to information. In a world driven by innovation and immediacy, transparency in the public sector plays a key role in securing public trust and promoting the responsible use of these technologies.
Workforce disclosure continues to improve with 173 of the world’s largest listed companies disclosing to WDI in 2021, a 23 per cent increase from the previous reporting cycle.
We have supported newsrooms in South Africa to harness the benefits of AI, while ensuring that core journalistic standards remain intact.
The Thomson Reuters Foundation has created the world’s largest dataset on how companies are using AI. Through our free tool, we’re supporting companies to prioritise transparency and responsible practice.
View our CEO Antonio Zappulla’s opening remarks for Day Two of Trust Conference 2025.
The Workforce Disclosure Initiative (WDI) collates voluntarily disclosed data on businesses’ people operations. One of the world’s leading programmes to improve transparency and accountability on workforce issues, WDI provides companies and investors with comprehensive and comparable insights.
