One frequent theme in current ethical guidelines is the requirement that AI be good for all, or: contribute to the Common Good. Butwhat is the Common Good, and is it enough to want to be good? Via four lead questions, I will illustrate challenges and pitfallswhen determining, from an AI...
As technology continues to evolve, we are faced with an incredible opportunity to leverage the power of new solutions and human expertise to unlock some of the biggest challenges we face in society today. This is why Microsoft invests in AI for Good initiati...
I’m excited to announce the top 10 global winners of the Imagine Cup Junior AI for Good Challenge 2021. Thousands of students, aged 13 through 18, participated in this year’s competition to come up with ideas to solve some of the world’s biggest challenges using the power of art...
We believe AI has the power to solve some of the world’s biggest challenges, when developed and deployed ethically, responsibly, and with everyone’s benefit in mind. That’s why we’ve built a global community of more than one million diverse humans to help us create AI that is relevant...
AI has the power to accelerate solutions to tackle global challenges and structural inequalities. But its potential to create positive human impact will depend on a responsible, purposeful and inclusive approach that focuses on creating value for all. ...
With OrganSecure, Mohapatra hopes to tackle the two biggest challenges in the organ donationecosystem—gettingmore people to become organ donors and ensuring people in need get the organs at the right time. The app starts with educating users with information related to organ donation and helps ...
To avert the specter of such a bleak future, China unveiled the Global AI Governance Initiative in October 2023, underscoring its advocacy for "AI for Good" within the United Nations framework. Many countries in the Global South are grappling with significant challenges, such as the collection of...
several scientific and technical challenges have to be overcome before we might see a widespread adaptation of such methods in weather centres and research organisations. We discuss recent achievements and ongoing activities and I may be tempted to speculate about fundamental, inherent limitations of AI...
bureaucratic inertia. There are lots of things, lots of data within governments, for instance, which could be valuable for addressing some of these social-good challenges, and yet it just hasn’t been made available. So I think that’s one of the challenges that we’ve identified during ...
Accelerating the deployment of AI for social goodScientific breakthroughs have increased the effectiveness of AI at pattern recognition, prediction, and creation. This progress has coincided with a rapidly growing number of successful AI deployments, but, as we saw above, there are still challenges ...