The use of high technologies and artificial intelligence helps in solving many ESG tasks: it is minimizing environmental impact, ensuring equal rights and availability of services for all users, protecting companies and customers from cyberak, the ability to collect data and based on them to accept the most Effective solutions that will make life better. Such conclusions came participants in the ESG panel discussion at the International Conference AI Journey 2021.
Session Moderator, First Deputy Chairman of the Board of Sale, Alexander Lamunts, noted that the Sber also successfully uses these technologies to solve environmental and social tasks. According to him, the Swedish scientists held and published in the journal Nature a study that shows and proves that artificial intelligence can improve the achievement of UN Sustainable Development Goals: in the direction of the Environment – 90 percent, in the direction of social services – 80 percent, and in the direction Economy – by 70 percent. These are huge numbers, stressed Lenadies.
At the same time, modern technologies require meaningful use, says Lamunts – IT components account for 10 percent of the use of the entire energy in the world. Sber began to consider the carbon footprint of his models of AI and implies to show the results of these studies already in 2022. Economic and carboral efficiency, according to the first deputy head of the Solve, are closely interrelated and moved one to another.
“No one knows what will happen in 10 years. The opportunity to think and talk about it, and then get out of our discussion with the thought that we will do in the next decade so that it is better to live on Earth – this is a big bright The question of which I suggest everyone to think about. As Steve Jobs said, we are in this world in order to make this world better, otherwise we are here, “he concluded.