{"id":11360,"date":"2025-01-03T12:16:50","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T12:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unp.education\/edu\/?p=11360"},"modified":"2025-01-03T00:28:42","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T00:28:42","slug":"ai-sustainable-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unp.education\/content\/ai-sustainable-development\/","title":{"rendered":"AI &#038; Sustainable Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) are 17 interlinked global goals, set up by the United Nations (UN) to achieve a better and more sustainable development for all of us on this planet.<\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_81 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/unp.education\/content\/ai-sustainable-development\/#AI_has_the_Potential_to_Play_a_Significant_Role_in_Achieving_the_SDGs\" >AI has the Potential to Play a Significant Role in Achieving the SDGs<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/unp.education\/content\/ai-sustainable-development\/#No_Poverty\" >No Poverty<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/unp.education\/content\/ai-sustainable-development\/#Zero_Hunger\" >Zero Hunger<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/unp.education\/content\/ai-sustainable-development\/#Good_Health_and_Well_Being\" >Good Health and Well Being<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"AI_has_the_Potential_to_Play_a_Significant_Role_in_Achieving_the_SDGs\"><\/span>AI has the Potential to Play a Significant Role in Achieving the SDGs<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Artificial Intelligence has the potential to accelerate our journey in reaching the SDGs. We have seen plenty of examples of how AI and related technologies made incredible impacts in healthcare, energy, agriculture, retail, telecom, transportation etc.\u2026 However, we have hardly seen the impact of AI in the social and environmental spheres yet. With SDGs in place, we will now see several such applications. Not only SDGs but several top tier companies are also now considering sustainability as seriously as their balance sheet.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"No_Poverty\"><\/span>No Poverty<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Poverty is the state in which people or communities lack resources for the minimum standard of living. Stanford University economist Marshall Burke used satellite images from day and night of different regions and developed a classification algorithm for marking regions in different poverty scales. This is definitely the right first step for eradicating poverty, identifying where it is present and at which scale. Based on that insight, resources can be distributed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Zero_Hunger\"><\/span>Zero Hunger<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>We, in this plant, are not running out of food. There are places with abundance and places with the scarcity of food. Efficient routing of food is the solution. The money to purchase the food is not a concern here. AI techniques are extensively used to identify countries and regions of excess food, followed by efficient routes to ship it to the locations where that requires the most.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Good_Health_and_Well_Being\"><\/span>Good Health and Well Being<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Applications of AI that we generally see in health care are mostly at the higher end of the spectrum. Robots performing surgery. On the other hand, AI is helping to map the groundwater quality and how it is changing over time. For many places in Asia and Africa, groundwater from wells and ponds are consumed directly. That makes healthcare and well being of people there directly connected with the weather they consume. Early detection of groundwater quality degradation detection helps regional governments act and take the right measure to protect the water quality or provide people with community filter systems. I hope these three applications are inspiring and show how AI can make a strong social impact. So, let\u2019s use AI to improve the quality of life on this planet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) are 17 interlinked global goals, set up by the United Nations (UN) to achieve a better and more sustainable development for all of us on this planet. 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