Deploying Artificial Intelligence to Achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals

This book provides research insights into how Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be used to achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – 17 interconnected goals designed to address the world’s most pressing challenges by 2030. It reviews the SDGs and discusses why progress has been mixed and uneven across different countries, regions and goals. The book posits that attaining the SDGs will depend on enhanced global cooperation, increased funding, improved infrastructure, public-private partnerships, regional/continental integration, addressing the climate crisis, inclusive economic transformation, and visionary leadership. More specifically, the publication advocates leveraging innovative and advanced technologies, particularly the deployment of AI. - Features broad and holistic interventions to accelerate the attainment of the SDGs. - Provides a comprehensive but accessible introduction to AI concepts and advanced innovations such as AlphaFold, ChatGPT-4, and DeepSeek-R1. - Presents the enablers, drivers and strategic framework of AI deployment to achieve the SDGs. - Outlines specific ways that AI can be deployed to achieve each of the 17 SDGs.