WASP-HS Community Reference Meeting Report

Artificial intelligence (AI) impacts our journey in reaching the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals in more ways than one. In the WASP-HS report “AI, sustainability and Agenda 2030”, the conclusions from the community reference meeting that took place on October 4, 2023, are presented. The contribution formulates and discusses the following challenges: First, that the desire to make environmental data politically actionable in immediate ways is understandable but requires carefully qualifying the aims. Data circulation accelerates various forms of data use, including commercial and for-profit use. Second, that data accommodates different stakeholder views and opposing interests. The same data sets can support diverging understandings of “sustainability”.