AI for Sustainability: FCAI meets HELSUS event
Can AI contribute to sustainability? According to a perspective in Nature, artificial intelligence has the potential to advance all of the Sustainable Development Goals. Large data mining and simulations are especially promising for goals such as smart cities, climate action, quality education, health, and decent work and economic growth. FCAI has a Sustainability Highlight program, led by Laura Ruotsalainen, that is focused on identifying and supporting FCAI’s innovations that are relevant for sustainability, and runs a Virtual Laboratory called Sustainable Mobility and Autonomous Systems.
Since this Highlight was launched in 2022, this is the perfect time to bring together researchers from the Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence and Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science. Through this AIX Forum event, sustainability researchers can find partners and identify joint challenges that could benefit from the application of AI. We invite all FCAI and HELSUS members to think about merging competencies in data, computer science, the humanities, environmental and urban studies, and complexity science to boost sustainability.
Date and time: 8 December, 2022, 12:30 – 16:00
Location: Language Centre seminar room 205, Fabianinkatu 26, University of Helsinki
12.45 – 13.10 Christopher Raymond: Strengths and Weaknesses of AI for Sustainability Science
13.10 – 13.35 Hanna Tuomisto: Future Sustainable Food Systems
13.35 – 14.00 Arto Klami: Virtual Laboratories
14.00 – 14.22 Laura Ruotsalainen: Sustainable Smart Mobility
14.25 – 14.50 Simo Särkkä: Sustainability in computing: Parallel/distributed methods for state-space models
14.50 – 16.00 Discussing collaboration opportunities with snacks
Relevant links:
- HELSUS researchers on Twitter
Image: "Think the nature" by Janne Räkköläinen is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.