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Shaping Asia's Future with AI and Climate Action 🌏✨ Our Founding Partner, Tien Nguyen, is about to join the discussion with an esteemed panelist discussion at the "AI & Climate Action Strategies: Promises, Pitfalls and Way Forward" webinar. This event, hosted by Digital Futures Lab and supported by The Rockefeller Foundation, also marks the launch of the "AI + Climate Futures in Asia" project. 🌳 Why This Matters? Asia, the most disaster-prone region globally, faces unparalleled climate challenges. With rising sea levels threatening major coastal cities and millions experiencing severe food insecurity, integrating AI into climate strategies offers a transformative opportunity to tackle these issues head-on, and it's more pressing now than ever. 💭 The webinar will feature a keynote address by Dr. Amandeep Gill, Office of the UN Secretary-General’s Envoy on Technology, and a special address by Deepali Khanna, Vice President - Asia at The Rockefeller Foundation. Also, join Tien Nguyen as he discusses the future of AI in climate action in a panel discussion with a stellar lineup of experts: - Aaditeshwar Seth (Professor at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, Co-founder of Gram Vaani) - Neth Daño (Coordinator & Asia Director, etc group) - Veerappan Swaminathan (CEO, Sustainable Living Lab (SL2)) Event Details: 🗓️ Date: July 2, 2024   🕛 Time: 6.00 - 7.30 pm IST 📍 Venue: Zoom  We're not just talking AI and climate action—we're hacking the future, bridging tech and nature, and rewriting the rulebook that enable a revolution for Asia's emerging economies 🚀 👉 Only 3 days left, register now: https://lnkd.in/d-pp_5aT Join us. Make history. Save the world. #ClimateTech #EarthVC #RockefellerFoundation #DFL #AIClimateFutures

🌐 Tackling the Toughest Global Challenges: A Bright Future Ahead! During a thought-provoking talk at MIT, White House science advisor Arati Prabhakar underscored the monumental challenges we face today in medicine, climate change, and artificial intelligence. Her address was a candid confrontation with our most pressing concerns, yet she radiated a sense of resolve and optimism in addressing these pivotal issues. Professionally speaking, this dialogue marks a significant milestone. When leaders in science and policy openly discuss these challenges, it not only fosters a crucial, candid dialogue but also underscores a shared commitment to innovation in: - **Medicine**: Revamping healthcare systems and harnessing novel technologies for better patient outcomes. Expect breakthroughs in personalized medicine and a focus on preventive care that can transform lives globally. - **Climate Change**: Transitioning to sustainable energy, mitigating environmental impacts, and building resilient infrastructure. Watch for innovations in renewable energy and climate adaptation that support not just society but the planet's ecology. - **Artificial Intelligence**: Balancing advancements with ethical considerations to ensure AI works to improve human well-being, fostering job creation while preserving privacy and security. Yet, with these challenges comes a horizon of remarkable opportunities: 1. **Collaborative Innovation**: Addressing these complex issues requires an interdisciplinary approach, bringing together talent from across sectors to forge innovative solutions. Partnerships between government, academia, and industry will be pivotal. 2. **New Work Paradigms**: Expect shifts in the job market as industries evolve, introducing new career paths and growth opportunities. Continuous learning and adaptability will be key for professionals navigating these changes. 3. **Regulatory Evolution**: As we advance, regulations will need to adapt swiftly to new realities in tech and environment, offering both safety and room for innovation. On a positive note, with figures like Prabhakar at the helm, we can be hopeful for a future that strategically marries innovation with resilience. Her determined stance is a clarion call to all of

🌍 As highlighted during the recent United Nations Multi-stakeholder Forum, the capabilities of AI in climate action cannot be overstated. Daniela Braga, PhD and Selwin Hart emphasized the critical need for focused investment and inclusive global cooperation to harness AI towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). At CO2 AI, we understand the necessity of deploying AI to not just enhance business productivity but also to forge a sustainable future that benefits all. Join our upcoming webinar, featuring experts from Reckitt, Boston Consulting Group (BCG), and our very own CO2 AI team, to delve into how #GenerativeAI can help us reach #NetZero through:  Faster and more accurate carbon emissions measurement- Eco-friendly product development- Supply chain optimization 🔗Register now: https://lnkd.in/eJyK-DiM link to the detailed UN article in the comments below for those interested in further insights. 👇 #Sustainability #AIforGood #ClimateAction #NetZero #Innovation #SDGs #TechForGood #Reckitt #BCG

And in light of the post from Jane Goodall and the World Economic Forum, here is also a nice one: Five Game-Changing Technologies Nearing Their Tipping Point: If necessity is the mother of invention, existential crises tend to be the great accelerators. The urgent need to address climate change, collapsing food systems, the next pandemic, and other global challenges is mobilizing investors, companies, researchers, and governments to speed the development of a raft of once-futuristic technologies with far-reaching business implications. I'm always excited and hopeful when I can read that there are still enough smart people around the world finding those solutions. :-) #esg #technology #trends

In 1998 the OECD published a report: 21st Century Technologies Promises and Perils of a Dynamic Future (https://lnkd.in/dcfcwFgx) - of course there are similarities and differences between now and then. The specific tools stirring people's imaginations have changed. The sensitivity to the ethical side, the Oppenheimer dilemma, is also cyclical - at the moment the Frankenstein trope has given particular amplitude to the fear factor, combined with the shock of the pandemic and the despair of wars. Currently I sense we are moving into the aftermath of the pandemic, leaving behind the humility about imagined futures that was inescapable during lock downs. The mood is shifting, stumbling towards nostalgic tunnel vision that confines imagined futures to restoring comforting illusions of the past. In this context, the OECD is attempting to play its historical and powerful role as convenor and catalytic condenser of hegemonic discourses - https://lnkd.in/djjEg2N9 - by drawing attention to the 'bigger picture', calling for reflection on the 'human future'. I see this as a subtle nudge to move beyond the most recent hype-cycle around AI and to recall the dynamics of science and technology systems (STS) within complex emergent societal realities, echos of the report from 1998. The OECD continues to try to walk the fine line at the forefront of public discourse, only this time around (more than 40 years after I started my career at the OECD in 1982) there is a non-human mirror offering an opportunity to ask deeper questions about why we are destroying our own home and continue to oppress each other? Verdicts on the specifics and outcomes arising from disruptive climate change are only starting to be seen - and the picture is already deeply unequal and wasteful of human potential. But there is also the opportunity to try to absorb the lessons of ancient thinking as well as recent scientific observations regarding the non-deterministic, open, unknowable in advance novelty, that infuses our 'creative' universe. More humility and respect, less extractivism and colonializing of the future, a different set of capabilities framing why and how humans imagine. Which would, in my view, bring with it the realization that 'we are our tools' and that it is not 'technology doing it to us' but our pretensions, hopes and fears, that position human agency in a futile effort to control the future. Time for futures literacy. #futuresliteracy #futuresstudies #GFTech

Jerome Glenn on the State of the Future 20.0 for The Good Men Project The conversation focused on the insights from the latest State of the Future 20.0 report recently issued by The Millennium Project, which tracks key global challenges, including climate change, #AI, and demographic shifts. Glenn emphasized the importance of transforming food systems and enhancing global governance to address these issues. Read more: https://lnkd.in/d9raNGuk

This week in iNews… SNS Member Ira Kalish opens his weekly Deloitte global economic update with a look at generative AI, climate change, carbon emissions, and Chinese electric vehicles. To learn more and read the full article, visit: https://lnkd.in/eYGE-pZ And to learn more about Ira Kalish, visit: https://lnkd.in/gUCAQ_-g   About iNews: iNews is our free mailing list containing timely and relevant articles about members of Strategic News Service and other important headlines! If you like what you see but want more, including full analysis of the stories, consider becoming an SNS member to receive our weekly Global Report. . . . #iNews #SNS ##StrategicNewsService #News #IraKalish #future #FutureinReview #thisweek #members #technology #globaleconomy #techleadership #techleaders #Dr #doctors #STAT #human #Deloitte #generativeAI #climatechange #carbon #emissions #ChineseEVs #electricvehicles

🌐 Tackling the Toughest Global Challenges: A Bright Future Ahead! During a thought-provoking talk at MIT, White House science advisor Arati Prabhakar underscored the monumental challenges we face today in medicine, climate change, and artificial intelligence. Her address was a candid confrontation with our most pressing concerns, yet she radiated a sense of resolve and optimism in addressing these pivotal issues. Professionally speaking, this dialogue marks a significant milestone. When leaders in science and policy openly discuss these challenges, it not only fosters a crucial, candid dialogue but also underscores a shared commitment to innovation in: - **Medicine**: Revamping healthcare systems and harnessing novel technologies for better patient outcomes. Expect breakthroughs in personalized medicine and a focus on preventive care that can transform lives globally. - **Climate Change**: Transitioning to sustainable energy, mitigating environmental impacts, and building resilient infrastructure. Watch for innovations in renewable energy and climate adaptation that support not just society but the planet's ecology. - **Artificial Intelligence**: Balancing advancements with ethical considerations to ensure AI works to improve human well-being, fostering job creation while preserving privacy and security. Yet, with these challenges comes a horizon of remarkable opportunities: 1. **Collaborative Innovation**: Addressing these complex issues requires an interdisciplinary approach, bringing together talent from across sectors to forge innovative solutions. Partnerships between government, academia, and industry will be pivotal. 2. **New Work Paradigms**: Expect shifts in the job market as industries evolve, introducing new career paths and growth opportunities. Continuous learning and adaptability will be key for professionals navigating these changes. 3. **Regulatory Evolution**: As we advance, regulations will need to adapt swiftly to new realities in tech and environment, offering both safety and room for innovation. On a positive note, with figures like Prabhakar at the helm, we can be hopeful for a future that strategically marries innovation with resilience. Her determined stance is a clarion call to all of

🔥 Hope. It's the fuel of life. Let me add some fuel to the fire... 🎉 We're on track to seeing global carbon emissions finally decline this year! One year ahead of the "point of no return". (https://lnkd.in/ex57GhZn) Yes. We still need a broader ecological perspective with planetary boundaries being more than just carbon emissions. Nevertheless, this is great news. 🎉 The United Nations has approved its "Pact for the future" focusing on prosperity today, for us, and tomorrow, for our children and their unborn offspring. (https://lnkd.in/eSdwpekr) Yes, famine, war, climate challenges and social upheaval are still happening. There is a lot of work to leave our world better off than we found it. If we come together and work together, there is a #regenerative path forward. (#SDG17) 🎉 OpenAI has released its Strawberry (o1-preview) model giving us unparalleled access to knowledge and reasoning like never before, putting #AGI, artificial general intelligence on the horizon. It enables #regenerative leaders to more easily, more quickly undo the damage to people and planet. (https://lnkd.in/eDqckbGq) Yes. We need to be vigilant. AI is a tool for the betterment of humanity and in this turn of history, humanity can easily become servants of AI. If you're looking for perspective on AI and the human condition, take a look at Radu Surdeanu's TEDxLeuven talk at (https://lnkd.in/egDdFwwx) And what if... ⏭ We would fully realize that today's economy causes unsustainable stress resulting in uncertainty and unfair inequality, hindering all of the above? Wouldn't we want to change it? ⏭ We'd understand we are built to focus on the problems in front of us but we can be conscious of those things valuable to us and envision a future full of life? There is still a lot to do. Onwards! #happonomy #regenerativeeconomy

As we explore the Intelligent Age, we find ourselves at a critical juncture where #technology can significantly accelerate progress on the #SDGs. #AI’s potential to address global challenges—whether in health, education, or sustainability—is immense. Realizing this potential requires a concerted effort to ensure these tools are used responsibly and inclusively. Following insightful discussions at the World Economic Forum's #SDIM24 in New York, it’s clear that collaboration across sectors and equitable access are key to harnessing AI’s power for meaningful and lasting change. Read more in my latest op-ed for Forbes here: https://lnkd.in/epTubxyC