Şebnem ÖZDEMİR, Pınar ÖZUYAR, Mustafa SUNDU

THE EFFECT OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOAL

Artificial intelligence (AI), which was built for "a better world" motto, reveals itspotential in many fields. Despite of such good intension, results of AI systems causedbias, and sharpened the social prejudices. Besides in order to create such powerful AIsystems and unbiased machines, the massive data collected, storaged, processed, alsocaused high energy consumption, ecological degradation. Although efforts have beenmade to integrate artificial intelligence into the sustainability field, the main limitation isabout the AI researcher's, developer's point of view. In this study, revealing thecontribution of artificial intelligence to the Sustainable Development Goals is aimed. Atthis point, data were collected using the analytical hierarchy process (AHP) from 30individuals who were trained and worked as a developer in the field of artificialintelligence. As a result, it has been understood that while the developers believe thatartificial intelligence will contribute mostly in the fields related to the industry andeconomy, they believe that it will make almost no contribution due to the bias problemson the gender equality side.

Yapay Zekânın Sürdürülebilir Kalkınma Hedefleri Üzerine Etkisi

Daha iyi bir dünya sloganı ile geliştirilen yapay zekâ, pek çok alanda potansiyeli ortaya koymaktadır. Ancak bu iyi niyete rağmen yapay zekâ tabanlı sistemler önyargı, yanılgı, sapmaya neden olmakta ve toplumsal önyargıları keskinleştirmektedir. Daha kuvvetli yapay zeka tabanlı sistemler, önyargısız makineler oluşturmak için toplanan işlenen depolanan yüksek yığınlı veriler ise yüksek enerji sarfıyatı, ekolojik bozulmalara yol açmaktadır. Yapay zekanın sürdürülebilirlik alanına entegre edilmesine yönelik tüm çalışmalara rağmen, temel kısıt geliştiricinin bakış açısıdır. Bu çalışmada sürdürülebilir Kalkınma Amaçları’na yapay zekânın katkısının nasıl gerçekleştiği araştırılmıştır. Bu noktada yapay zekâ alanında geliştirici olarak çalışan, eğitim almış 30 bireyden analitik hiyerarşi prosesi kullanılarak veri toplanmıştır. Sonuç olarak geliştiriciler yapay zekânın en çok endüstri, ekonomi ile ilgili alanlarda katkı yapacağına inanırken, toplumsal cinsiyet eşitliği tarafında önyargı, yanılgı ve sapma sorunları nedeniyle yok denecek kadar az katkı yapacağına inandıkları anlaşılmıştır.

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