Presentation 8thAI4KM/IJCAI20 Some thought on how AI can help achieving some of the UN Sustainable Development goals

1. Can AI Efficiently Support
Sustainable Development?
Eunika MERCIER-LAURENT
Chairman IFIP TC 12 (AI)
CReSTIC, University of Reims Champagne Ardenne
eunika.mercier-laurent@univ-reims.fr
https://www.knowledge4innovation.eu
http://innovation-ecosystems.eu

2. Sustainability & Development?
• Everything that we need for our survival
and well-being depends, directly or
indirectly, on our natural environment.
• Sustainability is to create and maintain
the conditions under which humans and
nature can exist in productive harmony
to support present and future
generations.
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3. Context
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Planned obsolescence

4. S&D - Strategies
• EU agenda for SD
• Green deal program
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5. AI today
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6. AI is under-explored
• Way of thinking
• Capacity of problem solving
• Opposite of “green” programming
• Only trendy techniques
• …
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7. What AI can do?
• Education
• Deep-understanding of complex
problems
• Problem solving (GPS, ontologies,
reasoning models…)
• Find alternative solutions
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8. What AI do?
• Eco-design – recycling – circular
economy/energy
• Greener software
• Global security
• Human spare pieces
Hybrid systems
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9. What AI can do?
• Optimization (constraint programming
for scheduling, resource allocation,
timetable, logistics..)
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10. AI for Greening & « smarting »
• Green transportation
• Green buildings
• Smart use of resources (water, energy,
air, raw materials)
• Smart city-region-planet
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11. Example of Smart City
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12. Re-using
• Business from big/open data
• Recycling
• « lego-like » approach
• Re-using past knowledge and experience
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13. What AI can do?
• Risks prevention and management…
– Natural
– Human
– Cybersecurity ---total security
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15. What AI can do?
• Simulation (VR for rapid prototyping;
ML, MAS for evaluation of impact)
• Better decisions
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16. Strategic Intelligence – impacts
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18. Local season
food
Local work
Smart
manufacturing
Technologies
Business
Climat Energy
Transportation
Water
Buildings
Health
Air
Resources
Balance between System
Components?
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