Community Commentary: 

How can AI advance or hinder SDGs?

AI has the potential to impact almost every recognized human right. Examples where AI is harming the fundamental rights of individuals are increasing, whether in equal access to healthcare, work and education, safety,  or an adequate standard of living.

It is urgent to act now before existing inequalities are further exacerbated and this is everyone’s duty: under international law, governments are obliged to respect, protect, and fulfill human rights and fundamental freedoms, while corporations and business enterprises are required to comply with all applicable laws and to respect human rights.

The community comment outlines a range of suggestions goals, and frameworks that center inclusion, gender and equality to achieve a future in which everyone has “the right to AI”. 

Concrete goals are presented to embed AI for Environmental solutions. AI & Equality members state that the development community must introduce existing technologies or invest in locally developed AI solutions in less technologically advanced nations. 

In regards to Partnership, Multi-Stakeholder collaboration is encouraged. Participatory AI development is key to responsible AI: only if communities impacted by a system are empowered to shape it (before, during & after deployment), can we ensure that these systems are in service of the people whose lives they affect.