Leveraging the collaborative power of AI and citizen science for sustainable development

IF 25.7 1区环境科学与生态学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Nature Sustainability Pub Date : 2024-12-16 DOI:10.1038/s41893-024-01489-2

Dilek Fraisl, Linda See, Steffen Fritz, Mordechai Haklay (Muki), Ian McCallum

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Both artificial intelligence (AI) and citizen science hold immense potential for addressing major sustainability challenges from health to climate change. Alongside their individual benefits, when combined, they offer considerable synergies that can aid in both better monitoring of, and achieving, sustainable development. While AI has already been integrated into citizen science projects such as through automated classification and identification, the integration of citizen science approaches into AI is lacking. This integration has, however, the potential to address some of the major challenges associated with AI such as social bias, which could accelerate progress towards achieving sustainable development. Integrating citizen science into artificial intelligence (AI) can help address major sustainability issues as well as some of the potential drawbacks associated with a wide use of AI. This Perspective highlights the advantages and challenges of such integration in light of achieving sustainable development.

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利用人工智能和公民科学的协同力量促进可持续发展

人工智能（AI）和公民科学在解决从健康到气候变化等重大可持续性挑战方面都具有巨大潜力。除了它们各自的好处外，它们结合起来还能产生相当大的协同作用，有助于更好地监测和实现可持续发展。虽然人工智能已经通过自动分类和识别等方式集成到公民科学项目中，但缺乏将公民科学方法集成到人工智能中。然而，这种整合有可能解决与人工智能相关的一些重大挑战，如社会偏见，从而加速实现可持续发展的进程。将公民科学融入人工智能（AI）可以帮助解决主要的可持续性问题，以及与广泛使用人工智能相关的一些潜在缺点。《展望》强调了在实现可持续发展方面这种一体化的优点和挑战。

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Nature Sustainability Energy-Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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159

期刊介绍： Nature Sustainability aims to facilitate cross-disciplinary dialogues and bring together research fields that contribute to understanding how we organize our lives in a finite world and the impacts of our actions. Nature Sustainability will not only publish fundamental research but also significant investigations into policies and solutions for ensuring human well-being now and in the future.Its ultimate goal is to address the greatest challenges of our time.