AI for the Sustainable Development Goals

<p>What is artificial intelligence? What are the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? How does AI affect the SDGs?</p><p>Artificial Intelligence has a real impact on our lives and on our environment and the Sustainable Development Goals enable us to evaluate these impacts in a systematic manner. This book shows that doing so requires us to understand the context of AI – the infrastructure it is built on who develops it who owns it who has access to it who uses it and what it is used for – rather than relying on an isolationist theory of technology. By doing so we can analyze not only the direct effects of AI on sustainability but also the indirect – or second-order – effects. <b><i>AI for the Sustainable Development Goals</i></b> shows how AI potentially affects all SDGs – both positively and negatively.</p>