The articles in this special section focus on how disruptions whether they be natural or human impact society, technological development, and future outlooks. This section explores the opportunities and challenges of leveraging AI and other digital capabilities to drive the transformative system changes needed to tackle the climate crisis and related global sustainability challenges. The work presented here was initiated well before the pandemic emerged, but the current crisis makes the issues explored in these papers even more poignant for challenges we face in building the world we want.

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数字时代的可持续发展【特刊介绍】

本专题中的文章重点关注自然或人类的破坏如何影响社会、技术发展和未来前景。本节探讨利用人工智能和其他数字能力推动应对气候危机和相关全球可持续性挑战所需的变革性系统变革的机遇和挑战。这里介绍的工作早在大流行出现之前就开始了，但当前的危机使这些论文中探讨的问题对于我们在建设我们想要的世界时面临的挑战更加尖锐。