TY - BOOK AU - Sætra,Henrik Skaug, TI - Ai For The Sustainable Development Goals T2 - AI for EVERYTHING SERIES SN - 9781032044378 U1 - 338.927 HEN 2022 PY - 2022/// CY - Boca Raton : PB - CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group KW - Sustainable Development Goals KW - Sustainable development KW - Artificial intelligence N1 - Includes index; Bibliography: pages [99]-106; Introduction -- AI and the SDGs in context -- The challenge of evaluating AI impact -- Sustainable Economic Development -- Sustainable Social Development -- Sustainable Environmental development -- Assessing the overall impact of AI -- Conclusion N2 - "What is artificial intelligence? What are the Sustainable Development Goals? How does AI affect the SDGs? 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 the direct effects of AI on sustainability, but also the indirect - or second order - effects. AI for the Sustainable Development Goals shows how AI potentially affects all SDGs. Positively, but also negatively"-- ER -