What’s the Connection Between AI & Sustainability? | AI Sustainable Futures Summit on March 28.

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or..... why should people who care about the health of this planet and its people care about the AI Sustainable Futures Summit on March 28?

The answer is simple. Building more sustainable societies will require solving epic business, economic, social and environmental problems that have defied solution for decades.

How can we create more food and get it to the people who need it? How can denser communities enhance the human spirit? How do we make our institutions, businesses and governments more efficient AND more resilient?

As Einstein said,

"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”

At the Summit, recognized leaders and experts from business, science, technology, finance, academia and government will discuss how they use AI and other new toolkits to accelerate the discovery and creation of solutions to the most important challenges facing humanity.

  • Making better-informed decisions about urban planning, housing, transit, and other needs

  • Creating more sustainable, less-stressful communities.

  • Maximizing the use of existing vehicles and creating faster, more efficient traffic patterns.

  • Optimizing our food supply from ground to table, even in difficult weather environments.

  • Making sounder decisions about natural resources, from minerals in the ground to fish in the sea: helping us plan more sustainable harvests, and more efficient, less harmful extraction processes.

  • Redefining “smart” for developing more resilient, people-first cities.

  • Designing and delivering continuous learning and leadership systems, for all ages.



AI: Job-Killer or Creator?

Fears about AI focus on its potential to erase jobs; machines can process data faster and more effectively than people.

But AI will also create millions of new jobs: more creative and worthwhile jobs, based on better planning and more focused human needs.

U.S. consulting firm Gartner forecasts that by 2020, AI will eliminate 1.8 million jobs, but create 2.3 million new ones.

"Robots are not here to take away our jobs,” says research director Manjunath Bhat. “They're here to give us a promotion.”


Event Details/Info:


http://rethinksustainability.ca/rsi-summit-2018/

RSI Summit 2018

Rethink Business as Usual

March 28th, 2018 – Toronto, Canada

Welcome to AI Sustainable Futures Summit and Innovation Zone.

This is a one-day action-focused exchange where forward-thinking leaders, entrepreneurs and experts from business, finance, science, cities and civil society come together to discover opportunities for advancing our future sustainability— with a special focus on how AI, Digital Technologies and other Transformative Innovations.

And, to forge new partnerships with fellow trailblazers for getting to the next level of future readiness.

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Venue:

Daniels Spectrum

585 Dundas Street East

Toronto, ON M5A 2B7

Canada


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I think this is one of the greatest fear of artificial intelligence.

  1. Will it try to overrule mankind?

  2. Will it be creating jobs or reducing them?

I ask myself these questions whenever AI is mentioned

I think there will be still a bigger chance of people destroying themselves than AI trying to destroy people...

Manual jobs will be gone first. Jobs may be reduced or people will just work less hours weekly.

We can't even imagine possibilities of AI now. Poverty may be gone, cures for all diseases will be discovered. Space exploration will be possible and so on...

People just can't think and make decisions as fast as computers. There is more and more knowledge in the world and our memory is limited. But we are only at the beggining now...

hmmm then i guess we just have to wait and see. thank you for this

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