Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly opening up a new frontier in the diverse fields of business, corporate practices, and governmental policy. The intelligence of machines and robotics with deep learning capabilities have created profound impacts on many different industries and sectors.
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As AI rapidly advances, its application and acceptability in business, government and society has recently been accelerated or enhanced by remote communication, social restrictions, and advances in telework due to the Coronavirus Pandemic.
Reports
Health and Sustainable Development
This report was put together by two members of WHO in order to explain key health trends around the world. Gives a brief introduction on advancements in global health. Goes on to describe the key illnesses that the majority of people will suffer from in less developed and poverty-stricken regions. Explains that urbanization will cause many health problems such as respiratory illnesses due to greater fuel emissions. Climate change will greatly affect global health and this can only be prevented by sustainable options.
Scholarly Journals
The Inconvenient Truth About AI and Healthcare
This article discusses potential growth of artificial intelligence in public healthcare. The current debate is on creating diagnostic programs that will diagnose a patient and assign the correct treatment and medication. The article then discusses why there are many obstacles to get past before this is a possible option. Many healthcare systems do not have the infrastructure necessary to run such programs.
Articles
Artificial Intelligence can Solve These Global Problems: Healthcare, Education, Hunger, Poverty
Easy-to-follow article for all levels of educating. Discusses the use of computer algorithms to diagnose malaria instead of doctors who need to count individual parasites. By allowing a computer to find the patterns, this shortens the time of diagnosis which brings the patient to quicker treatment, thus saving lives.
Job Loss due to AI- How Bad Is It Going to Be?
Lengthy article but easy to read. Uses many examples and quotes of historical figures. Makes the point that jobs have always been replaced by machines. The past industrial revolutions replaced many labor-intensive jobs yet produced new jobs and better-quality living. One fear is that self-driving cars will make truck drivers obsolete
Could AI Create an Unemployment Crisis?
This article explains that the rate of AI is growing too quickly for people to adapt and find new jobs. The U.S. has to generate 100,000 more jobs every month just to keep up with population growth. At that rate, how are we supposed to keep up with AI advances too?
AI Will Create Millions More Jobs Than It Will Destroy. Here's How
A clearly-written article that gives an optimistic outlook on the future of jobs. Believes that AI will create more jobs. AI will advance to translate languages. This will lower the cost of business with those who speak other languages. However, the need for translators is skyrocketing. This is because the machines can do simple translations, but companies need humans for complex tasks.
A Look at the Positive Side of AI and Poverty
The article begins by making the point that technology is not inherently good or bad, it is the human that uses it that decides. One example of a positive benefit of AI is that the World Bank Group’s Global Land and Geospatial unit has sent drones to survey the land and make land plots for these women at a much cheaper rate than a team of surveyors would cost. This has given the women of Kosovo a chance to claim their land and make investments in what is rightfully theirs.
Courses
Sustainability and Global Health
This is an entire course on Sustainability and Global Health. This page takes you to the course description, as well as the syllabus. The course will cover aspects of sustainability relative to global health including climate change and manufacturing. Present issues are analyzed, along with future prospects for global health and issues that may arise without sustainable actions.
Educational Videos
Healthcare Sustainability
This short video shows how much the health care systems contribute to greenhouse gas emissions and pollution of the planet. It explains the importance of creating sustainable healthcare systems and taking into account the negative externalities of various industries and sectors.
TED Talk: Artificial Intelligence Can Change the Future of Medical Diagnosis
Compelling Ted Talk that discusses the potential of AI in public healthcare. Speaker shows example of diagnosing osteoarthritis three years before someone has the disease. She explains what we would need to achieve this type of pre-diagnosis. This type pre-diagnosis could save lives and money.