The role of artificial intelligence in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals

The emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) and its progressively wider impact on many sectors requires an assessment of its effect on the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. Using a consensus-based expert elicitation process, we find that AI can enable the accomplishment of 134 targ...

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Autores principales: Vinuesa, Ricardo, Azizpour, Hossein, Leite, Iolanda, Balaam, Madeline, Dignum, Virginia, Domisch, Sami, Felländer, Anna, Langhans, Simone Daniela, Tegmark, Max, Fuso Nerini, Francesco
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Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2020
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Perspective
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6957485/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31932590
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-14108-y
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author Vinuesa, Ricardo
Azizpour, Hossein
Leite, Iolanda
Balaam, Madeline
Dignum, Virginia
Domisch, Sami
Felländer, Anna
Langhans, Simone Daniela
Tegmark, Max
Fuso Nerini, Francesco
author_facet Vinuesa, Ricardo
Azizpour, Hossein
Leite, Iolanda
Balaam, Madeline
Dignum, Virginia
Domisch, Sami
Felländer, Anna
Langhans, Simone Daniela
Tegmark, Max
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description The emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) and its progressively wider impact on many sectors requires an assessment of its effect on the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. Using a consensus-based expert elicitation process, we find that AI can enable the accomplishment of 134 targets across all the goals, but it may also inhibit 59 targets. However, current research foci overlook important aspects. The fast development of AI needs to be supported by the necessary regulatory insight and oversight for AI-based technologies to enable sustainable development. Failure to do so could result in gaps in transparency, safety, and ethical standards.
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spelling pubmed-69574852020-01-15 The role of artificial intelligence in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals Vinuesa, Ricardo Azizpour, Hossein Leite, Iolanda Balaam, Madeline Dignum, Virginia Domisch, Sami Felländer, Anna Langhans, Simone Daniela Tegmark, Max Fuso Nerini, Francesco Nat Commun Perspective The emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) and its progressively wider impact on many sectors requires an assessment of its effect on the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. Using a consensus-based expert elicitation process, we find that AI can enable the accomplishment of 134 targets across all the goals, but it may also inhibit 59 targets. However, current research foci overlook important aspects. The fast development of AI needs to be supported by the necessary regulatory insight and oversight for AI-based technologies to enable sustainable development. Failure to do so could result in gaps in transparency, safety, and ethical standards. Nature Publishing Group UK 2020-01-13 /pmc/articles/PMC6957485/ /pubmed/31932590 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-14108-y Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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Dignum, Virginia
Domisch, Sami
Felländer, Anna
Langhans, Simone Daniela
Tegmark, Max
Fuso Nerini, Francesco
The role of artificial intelligence in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6957485/
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