How transformative is AI RAN?

The role of AI in the RAN is evolving from AI in the RAN, to incrementally optimizing RAN operations and increasing cost efficiency, to AI for the RAN, to reimagine the RAN architecture, ensuring accountability and resiliency and protecting networks, users, and society from biases and unintended outcomes.

Nirlay Kundu, Head of Technology Standards at IMDEA Networks, guides us through a strategic approach to benefiting from and safeguarding against AI, drawing on his research and standardization experience, as well as his previous work at Verizon.

We talked about:

• Accountability and governance with AI
• Predictive, adaptive, autonomous and explainable intelligence
• The essential role of humans in the loop
• Minimizing bias, maximizing learning
• AI at the edge and in the data center
• The latest innovation in agentic AI