Part of the Sustainability Science Days program

According to a perspective in Nature (Vinuesa et al. 2020), artificial intelligence has the potential to advance all of the Sustainable Development Goals. Large data mining and simulations are especially promising for goals such as smart cities, climate action, quality education, health, and decent work and economic growth.

Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence (FCAI) has a program that is focused on identifying and supporting FCAI’s innovations that are relevant for sustainability. The aim of this session is to gather the representatives of academic community and decision makers to discuss the potential and challenges of using AI for systemic changes. The aim is also to brainstorm how to include the whole society in the development and move from scattered, small-scale activities to significant AI-enabled transformations.

LOCATION: language center room 405, fabianinkatu 26, university of helsinki

Program

13.15 – 13.20 Laura Ruotsalainen, University of Helsinki and FCAI: Opening of the event, AI as the enabler for systemic changes.

13.20 – 13.40 Atte Harjanne, the Greens:  How can we engage the whole society in systemic and fair change. 

13.40 – 14.00 Anna-Mari Rusanen, Ministry of Finance: Decision making and policy governance for AI based sustainability activities 

14.00 – 14.20 Pia Erkinheimo, the Finninsh Climate Fund: Pursuing sustainability goals via combating climate change, boosting low-carbon industry and promoting digitalisation.

14. 20 – 14.40 Davor Orlic, Global Network of AI Excellence Centres in Sustainable Development – NAIXUS: Engaging international research community in AI enabled transformations. 

14.40 – 14.45 Closing words, Laura Ruotsalainen