This DLD session is all about the benefits that AI can bring to the world. The panel brings together experts from business, investing and the United Nations, featuring Manon Littek (Green Generation Fund); Bernhard Kowatsch (United Nations World Food Programme Innovation Accelerator); Markus Löffler (Palantir Technologies); and Odin Mühlenbein (Ashoka AI Lab).
In mitigating climate change, “AI has a huge potential of making supply chains more transparent, decarbonizing supply chains, making processes more efficient”, Manon Littek observes.
But the technology’s potential benefits go much further, she believes, because in areas like weather prediction and alternative proteins “AI can really create impact and solve problems”.
That’s precisely why the United Nation’s World Food Programme is exploring the potential of AI for good causes as well.
“I’d argue we have a moral obligation to use AI”, Bernhard Kowatsch says. “Because we need to be the most effective and efficient in delivering aid to the right people at the right time. But also sustainably enable smaller farmers so that they get precision agriculture information that they would never have access to without AI.”
Watch the video to hear from Odin Mühlenbein how AI can “help us make much faster progress on a lot of social issues” and why Markus Löffler believes that artificial intelligence plays an enormous role in security issues and protecting democracy.
