AI for social good: unlocking the opportunity for positive impact

Nenad Tomašev; Julien Cornebise; Frank Hutter; Shakir Mohamed; Angela Picciariello; Bec Connelly; Danielle C M Belgrave; Daphne Ezer; Fanny Cachat van der Haert; Frank Mugisha; Gerald Abila; Hiromi Arai; Hisham Almiraat; Julia Proskurnia; Kyle Snyder; Mihoko Otake-Matsuura; Mustafa Othman; Tobias Glasmachers; Wilfried de Wever; Yee Whye Teh; Mohammad Emtiyaz Khan; Ruben De Winne; Tom Schaul; Claudia Clopath

doi:10.1038/s41467-020-15871-z

AI for social good: unlocking the opportunity for positive impact

Nat Commun. 2020 May 18;11(1):2468. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-15871-z.

Authors

Nenad Tomašev^#¹, Julien Cornebise^#², Frank Hutter^#^{3

4}, Shakir Mohamed^#⁵, Angela Picciariello⁶, Bec Connelly⁷, Danielle C M Belgrave⁸, Daphne Ezer^{9

10}, Fanny Cachat van der Haert¹¹, Frank Mugisha¹², Gerald Abila¹³, Hiromi Arai¹⁴, Hisham Almiraat¹⁵, Julia Proskurnia¹⁶, Kyle Snyder⁷, Mihoko Otake-Matsuura¹⁴, Mustafa Othman¹⁷, Tobias Glasmachers¹⁸, Wilfried de Wever^{19

20}, Yee Whye Teh^{5

21}, Mohammad Emtiyaz Khan^#¹⁴, Ruben De Winne^#²², Tom Schaul^#⁵, Claudia Clopath^#²³

Affiliations

¹ DeepMind, London, UK. nenadt@google.com.
² Department of Computer Science, University College London, London, UK.
³ Department of Computer Science, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.
⁴ Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence, Renningen, Germany.
⁵ DeepMind, London, UK.
⁶ Oxfam GB, Oxford, UK.
⁷ RNW Media, Hilversum, The Netherlands.
⁸ Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK.
⁹ University of Warwick, Warwick, UK.
¹⁰ Alan Turing Institute, London, UK.
¹¹ International Commission of Jurists, Brussels, Belgium.
¹² Chemonics International Inc., Kigali, Rwanda.
¹³ BarefootLaw, Kampala, Uganda.
¹⁴ RIKEN Center for AI Project, Tokyo, Japan.
¹⁵ Justice and Peace Netherlands, The Hague, The Netherlands.
¹⁶ Google, Zurich, Switzerland.
¹⁷ Shaqodoon Organization, Hargeisa, Somaliland.
¹⁸ Institute for Neural Computation, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany.
¹⁹ SEMA, Kampala, Uganda.
²⁰ Humanity Solutions, The Hague, The Netherlands.
²¹ University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
²² Oxfam Novib, The Hague, The Netherlands.
²³ Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, London, UK.

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

Advances in machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) present an opportunity to build better tools and solutions to help address some of the world's most pressing challenges, and deliver positive social impact in accordance with the priorities outlined in the United Nations' 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The AI for Social Good (AI4SG) movement aims to establish interdisciplinary partnerships centred around AI applications towards SDGs. We provide a set of guidelines for establishing successful long-term collaborations between AI researchers and application-domain experts, relate them to existing AI4SG projects and identify key opportunities for future AI applications targeted towards social good.

Publication types

Review
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't