The 18th G20 Leaders’ Summit, under India’s Presidency, achieved a surprising consensus with the New Delhi Declaration despite global tensions. India’s "omni-alignment" diplomacy played a crucial role in this diplomatic success. The key question remains: how well do the G20’s decisions address the urgent issues facing people and the planet?

Governments worldwide have been adopting national AI strategies to guide the design of policies for enhancing Artificial Intelligence (AI) development. Through these strategies, many countries have expressed AI’s potential for helping combat environmental degradation, but almost none have reflected on the role of strategies in reducing AI’s own environmental impacts. This article discusses this trend and reflects on how public policies could help make AI development and deployment less impactful.

Concerns about the risks and impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) have grown rapidly, almost as fast as the technology itself has developed and spread across various applications. A recurring assertion is that AI systems reinforce gender inequalities and perpetuate prejudice.