The Role Assigned to Artificial Intelligence in Global Sustainability Governance
Bontridder, Noémi and Kang, Yi Hyun LU
(2025)
In Georgetown Journal of International Affairs Online
26(1).
p.27-35
- Abstract
- There exists a knowledge gap in the literature on how international actors address artificial intelligence (AI) in international sustainability governance. By addressing this gap and bringing a critical perspective, this paper aims to enrich discussions on AI within international relations. First, this paper shows that the development and deployment of AI-based technologies are mainly seen as an opportunity to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in international politics, while their drawbacks are only considered to a limited extent. Second, this paper refers to the tendency to rely on AI to address societal challenges that are considered too complex for humans to comprehend as potential “AI solutionism.” It defines this... (More)
- There exists a knowledge gap in the literature on how international actors address artificial intelligence (AI) in international sustainability governance. By addressing this gap and bringing a critical perspective, this paper aims to enrich discussions on AI within international relations. First, this paper shows that the development and deployment of AI-based technologies are mainly seen as an opportunity to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in international politics, while their drawbacks are only considered to a limited extent. Second, this paper refers to the tendency to rely on AI to address societal challenges that are considered too complex for humans to comprehend as potential “AI solutionism.” It defines this approach as being based on an insufficient understanding of the operation and socio-environmental impacts of AI, arguing that these two aspects should be thoroughly analyzed by actors in global sustainability governance. (Less)
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- Bontridder, Noémi
and Kang, Yi Hyun
LU
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- 2025
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- Contribution to journal
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- artificial intellgience, AI, sustainable development goal (SDG), SDGs, Techno-solutionism, AI-solutionism
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- Georgetown Journal of International Affairs Online
- volume
- 26
- issue
- 1
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- 8 pages
- publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
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- scopus:105012301435
- ISSN
- 1526-0054
- DOI
- 10.1353/gia.2025.a965774
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- English
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