Page 5 - AI for Good-Innovate for Impact - An Interim Report 2024

Foreword

In an age of rapid technological progress, artificial intelligence
(AI) is a crucial tool for meaningful global progress in areas such
as climate action, health, and disaster response.

ITU’s commitment to realizing this potential is embodied by our
standardization and capacity-building work and our leadership
of AI for Good, the United Nations’ primary platform for
collaboration to ensure that AI advances the UN Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs)

AI’s great potential to act as a force for good is demonstrated
by the promising AI use cases outlined by this report. Our
open call for AI use cases relevant to the SDGs generated 219
submissions from 38 countries.

We have also welcomed 13 scholars from around the world to our AI Scholar Programme,
selected from 118 applications from 38 countries, who are now working on refining the use
cases in this report.

These use cases predominantly highlight AI’s relevance to SDGs 3 (Good Health and Wellbeing),
9 (Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure), 10 (Reduced Inequalities), 11 (Sustainable Cities and
Communities), and 13 (Climate Action).

Careful consideration of AI's ethical and societal implications is vital. We must ensure that AI is
developed and deployed responsibly, with fairness, transparency, and inclusivity. The use cases
included in this report show potential to help uphold these values.

I thank all contributors to this report as well as China’s Ministry of Industry and Information
Technology for its strong support throughout this project.

Seizo Onoe
Director
ITU Telecommunication Standardization Bureau

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