Integrating ESG and AI: a comprehensive responsible AI assessment framework

AI and ethics Pub Date : 2025-06-10 DOI:10.1007/s43681-025-00741-5

Sung Une Lee, Harsha Perera, Yue Liu, Boming Xia, Qinghua Lu, Liming Zhu, Jessica Cairns, Moana Nottage

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Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) principles are critical for addressing global challenges and fostering sustainable practices. As Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a widely developed and adopted technology across entire industry sectors, integrating ESG into AI is essential to mitigate risks, align AI with societal goals, and support responsible investments. More specifically, viewing AI through an ESG lens empowers investors and organizations to manage impacts and guide sustainable AI development. Despite its significance, this area remains underexplored. To address this gap, we introduce the ESG-AI framework for investors, developed from insights with 28 companies. This framework offers a structured approach to assess AI’s material impacts, evaluate corporate commitments to responsible AI, and manage AI-related risks. By detailing its development and components, we demonstrate its applicability in advancing digital sustainability, guiding ethical AI investments, and supporting informed decision-making. This study highlights the framework’s value in aligning AI innovation with ESG principles for long-term societal and business benefits.

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整合ESG和AI：一个全面负责任的AI评估框架

环境、社会和治理（ESG）原则对于应对全球挑战和促进可持续实践至关重要。由于人工智能（AI）是一项被整个行业广泛开发和采用的技术，因此将ESG整合到人工智能中对于降低风险、使人工智能与社会目标保持一致以及支持负责任的投资至关重要。更具体地说，从ESG的角度看待人工智能，使投资者和组织能够管理影响并指导人工智能的可持续发展。尽管这一地区意义重大，但仍未得到充分开发。为了解决这一差距，我们为投资者引入了ESG-AI框架，该框架是根据对28家公司的见解发展而来的。该框架提供了一种结构化的方法来评估人工智能的实质性影响，评估企业对负责任的人工智能的承诺，以及管理人工智能相关风险。通过详细介绍其开发和组成部分，我们展示了其在推进数字可持续性、指导道德人工智能投资和支持明智决策方面的适用性。该研究强调了该框架在将人工智能创新与ESG原则相结合以实现长期社会和商业效益方面的价值。

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