2022/10/08 by Andreas Theodorou, Theodorou, Andreas, Juan Carlos Nieves +3
Environmental Science · Social Sciences · #Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) #Climate Change Communication and Perception #Computational and Text Analysis Methods #Computers and Society (cs.CY) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2210.09010
openalex publication_date 2022/10/08 · openalex created_date 2022/10/20 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Developed and used responsibly Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a force for global sustainable development. Given this opportunity, we expect that the many of the existing guidelines and recommendations for trustworthy or responsible AI will provide explicit guidance on how AI can contribute to the achievement of United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This would in particular be the case for the AI strategies of the Nordic countries, at least given their high ranking and overall political focus when it comes to the achievement of the SDGs. In this paper, we present an analysis of existing AI recommendations from 10 different countries or organisations based on topic modelling techniques to identify how much these strategy documents refer to the SDGs. The analysis shows no significant difference on how much these documents refer to SDGs. Moreover, the Nordic countries are not different from the others albeit their long-term commitment to SDGs. More importantly, references to gender equality (SDG 5) and inequality (SDG 10), as well as references to environmental impact of AI development and use, and in particular the consequences for life on earth, are notably missing from the guidelines.