How can artificial intelligence contribute to Agenda 2030?
Channel: Stockholm Environment Institute
Date: 2022-12-16

In this film, Henrik Carlsen, Co-Director of Mistra Geopolitics at SEI, Lena Sellgren at Business Sweden and Fredrik Heintz at Linköping University – experts within the Mistra Geopolitics programme – discuss the geopolitics of emerging technologies, artificial intelligence and the importance of foresight.

Current technological advances are expected to bring economic, social and political transformations of an unprecedented scale. Advances in areas such as artificial intelligence, communication technologies, robotics, biotechnology and material science are set to change our future.

Foresight capabilities and emerging technologies is one of the prioritized research themes in the Mistra Geopolitics programme. One strand of research helps international organizations and states make sense of and use the potential of these technologies to achieve the 2030 Agenda. 

Mistra Geopolitics experts
• Henrik Carlsen, Co-Director of Mistra Geopolitics and Senior Research Fellow, SEI
• Lena Sellgren, Chief Economist, Business Sweden
• Fredrik Heintz, Professor of Computer Science, Linköping University

About the film 
The interview and script were conducted and written by Ylva Rylander Communications Officer and Maria Cole, Communications Lead of Mistra Geopolitics at SEI. Voice-over by Andrea Lindblom, Senior Communications Officer at SEI. Film production by Johan Söderlund

This film was produced by the Mistra Geopolitics research programme, led by Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) and funded by Mistra, the Swedish foundation for strategic environmental research.