[4][5][6] Sharma is the founder of AI for Good UK, which works to make artificial intelligence tools more ethical and equitable.

[7] Sharma has been named to Forbes magazine's 30 Under 30 Europe: Technology list, and appointed as a United Nations Young Leader.

[11][12][13] Sharma's initiatives include Pegg, an accounting chatbot,[14] and rAInbow, a platform to support survivors of domestic violence.

In July 2016, Sharma and Stephen Kelly, chief executive officer of Sage, launched Pegg, the world’s first personal artificial intelligence for business finance.

[7] In November 2018, AI for Good launched rAInbow, a digital companion for victims of domestic violence in South Africa[15][43] with Josina Machel, an activist and Nelson Mandela's step daughter.

[45] In 2018, Jeremy Wright, the UK's Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, appointed Sharma as an adviser on AI, Data Ethics and Innovation.