AI x Sustainability: Bringing People and Planet into the Business Case for Adoption
A Talk by Claire Robinson (Director of Sustainable Business Consulting, Transform UK)
About this Talk
In this session, Claire Robinson, Director of Sustainable Business Consulting at Transform, offers a framework to help leaders navigate the complex path to AI adoption, balancing economic, environmental and social/ethical considerations. We live in a world of competing narratives about AI: Environment
- AI is bad for the planet, depleting precious water, materials and energy
- AI can save the planet – we need it to create global solutions Social
- AI is biased and will increase social exclusion
- AI will democratise access to learning, enabling human flourishing Economic
- AI will perpetuate global inequality, widening the wealth gap
- Only using AI can we enable the world’s wealth to be shared justly How can leaders make the right choices in the near term, aligning AI strategies with their organisations’ commitment to Net Zero and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals?
We’ll explore these questions and share our take on a Net Positive assessment for AI use cases – incorporating people and planet into business casing for AI.