Advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) are helping tackle a growing number of societal challenges, demonstrating technology's increasing capability to address complex issues, including those outlined in the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Despite global efforts, 80 percent of SDG targets have deviated, stalled, or regressed, and only 15 percent are on track as of 2023, illustrating the urgency of accelerating efforts to meet the goals by 2030. We draw on Google's internal and collaborative research, technical work, and social impact initiatives to show AI's potential to accelerate action on the SDGs and make substantive progress to help address humanity's most pressing challenges. The paper highlights AI capabilities (including computer vision, generative AI, natural language processing, and multimodal AI) and showcases how AI is altering how we approach problem-solving across all 17 SDGs through use cases, with a spotlight on AI-powered innovation in health, education, and climate. We then offer insights on AI development and deployment to drive bold and responsible innovation, enhance impact, close the accessibility gap, and ensure that everyone, everywhere, can benefit from AI.

翻译：人工智能（AI）的进步正助力应对日益增多的社会挑战，展现了技术解决复杂问题——包括联合国（UN）可持续发展目标（SDGs）中所概述的那些问题——日益增强的能力。尽管全球持续努力，截至2023年，仍有80%的可持续发展具体目标偏离轨道、停滞不前或出现倒退，仅有15%的目标按计划推进，这凸显了在2030年前加速努力以实现这些目标的紧迫性。我们借鉴谷歌的内部及合作研究、技术工作和社会影响倡议，展示了人工智能在加速可持续发展目标行动、取得实质性进展以帮助应对人类最紧迫挑战方面的潜力。本文重点阐述了人工智能的能力（包括计算机视觉、生成式AI、自然语言处理和多模态AI），并通过用例展示了人工智能如何改变我们在全部17个可持续发展目标领域解决问题的方式，其中特别聚焦于人工智能在健康、教育和气候领域的创新应用。随后，我们针对人工智能的开发与部署提出了见解，旨在推动大胆且负责任的创新，增强影响力，弥合可及性差距，并确保世界各地的每个人都能受益于人工智能。