The potential of artificial intelligence for achieving healthy and sustainable societies

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2202.07424v1
• Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2022 14:32:55 GMT
• Title: The potential of artificial intelligence for achieving healthy and sustainable societies
• Abstract summary: This chapter extends earlier work on the potential of artificial intelligence to achieve the 17 Sustainable Development Goals proposed by the United Nations (UN) for the 2030 Agenda.
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• Abstract: In this chapter we extend earlier work (Vinuesa et al., Nature Communications 11, 2020) on the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) to achieve the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) proposed by the United Nations (UN) for the 2030 Agenda. The present contribution focuses on three SDGs related to healthy and sustainable societies, i.e. SDG 3 (on good health), SDG 11 (on sustainable cities) and SDG 13 (on climate action). This chapter extends the previous study within those three goals, and goes beyond the 2030 targets. These SDGs are selected because they are closely related to the coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) pandemic, and also to crises like climate change, which constitute important challenges to our society.

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