AI

AI has the power to tackle many of the biggest problems on the planet and could make a huge impact on sustainability and the environment.

Artificial intelligence is shaping up to be the transformative technology of our time. It offers a multitude of possibilities and generates a range of questions. AI has the power to tackle many of the biggest problems on the planet and could make a huge impact on sustainability, our environment, and even humanity itself. Today, the use of AI in society is not limited to intelligent tutoring systems. AI is used in the personalized learning process, monitoring and testing learner activities, and designing the learning process, learning materials, and outcomes. This article lists the positive impact of AI on society. 

Environmental Challenges

These include sustaining biodiversity and combating natural resource depletion, pollution, and climate change. Robots with AI capabilities can be used to sort recyclable material from waste. For example, the Rainforest Connection, a nonprofit in the US, uses AI tools such as Google’s TensorFlow in conservation efforts across the world. Its platform can detect illegal logging in vulnerable forest areas through the analysis of audio sensor data. 

Economic Empowerment

With an emphasis on currently vulnerable populations, these domains involve opening access to economic resources and opportunities, including jobs, the development of skills, and market information. For example, AI can be used to detect plant damage early through low-altitude sensors, including smartphones and drones, to improve yields for small farms.

Healthy Competition

The race by deep-pocketed cloud providers to create and implement leading security technologies is the tip of the spear of innovation. The pace and extent of security feature enhancement to products are accelerating across the cloud industry. This massive, global-scale competition to keep increasing security in tandem with agility and productivity is a benefit to all.

Crisis Response

Specific crisis-related challenges, such as responding to natural and man-made disasters in search and rescue missions and at times of disease outbreak. AI on satellite data to map and predict wildfire progression to optimize firefighter response. Drones with AI capabilities can also be used to find missing persons in wilderness areas.

Educational Challenges

These include maximizing student achievement and improving teachers’ productivity. For example, adaptive-learning technology could base recommended content to students on past success and engagement with the material.

Security and Justice

Challenges in society include harm prevention both from crime and other physical dangers as well as tracking criminals and mitigating bias of police forces. This domain focuses on security, policing, and criminal justice issues as a unique category adjacent to public-sector management.

Sovereignty Meets Sustainability

The global distribution of many cloud providers means that the cloud can more easily meet national or regional deployment needs. Similarly, workloads can be more easily deployed to regions with better energy profiles. That, coupled with the cloud's inherent efficiency due to higher resource utilization, means the cloud is more sustainable overall. 

Global Warming

By using AI and data science, researchers can analyze how trees have been disrupted in the forest. Without AI, such a study wouldn’t be possible. If we can develop a better understanding of how our forests change in the wake of hurricanes, we can look for measures to combat climate change.