Artificial Intelligence, Governance and Sustainable Development

Imad Antoine Ibrahim is an Assistant Professor in Law, Technology and Sustainability in the Section of Governance and Technology for Sustainability, Faculty of Behavioral, Management and Social Sciences (BMS) at University of Twente, the Netherlands. He is also a Senior Research Associate at gLAWcal – Global Law Initiative for Sustainable Development, UK.Jon Truby is a Visiting Research Associate Professor in AI and Technology Law at the Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore. He is founding Chair of the International Law Association’s AI & Technology Law Committee, and a participating expert of the OECD.AI Expert Group on AI Compute and Climate.Paolo Davide Farah is a Full Professor at West Virginia University, Eberly College of Arts and Sciences, John D. Rockefeller IV School of Policy and Politics, USA. He is the Founder, President, and Director of gLAWcal, UK.

• Foreword 1 (by Dr. Esmat Zaidan). Foreword 2 (by Jon Truby). 1. Framing AI’s Role in Achieving SDG 16 (Jon Truby, Imad Antoine Ibrahim and Paolo Davide FarahI) Part I: Artificial Intelligence, SDG 16, and Governance 2. Artificial Intelligence against Corruption: Steering Developing Nations Towards SDG 16 (Imad Antoine Ibrahim and Jon Truby) 3. AI and the Political Targets of SDG 16 (Henrik Skaug Sætra) Part II: Artificial Intelligence, SDG 16, Ethics and Access to Justice 4. Law and Economics in the Metaverse: The Issue of Cryptocurrencies (Antonio Incampo) 5. Conditions for Achieving Digital Justice: Enhancing Inclusivity and Participation in Governance (Piero Marra) 6. Datafication, Artificial Intelligence, and Rule of Law: A Tale of Incompatible Values (Ignas Kalpokas and Julija Kalpokiene) 7. Social Media Regulation and Achievement of SDG 16 (Thomas F. McInerney) 8. Open But Inaccessible: AI Access and Inclusivity Challenges in Open Government Data for SDG 16 (Rafael Dean Brown and Imad Antoine Ibrahim) Part III: Artificial Intelligence, SDG 16, and Criminal Justice 9. Toward Equal Access to Justice for All: Harnessing Artificial Intelligence for the Administration of Criminal Justice (Kelly Blount) 10. What counts as corruption? Alternative indicators for SDG16.5 in the era of AI (José-Miguel Bello y Villarino) 11. Watched by the One Hundred Eyes of Argus: Artificial Intelligence and the Fight against Illicit Proceeds with a Focus on SDG16 (Georgios Pavlidis) 12. The Deployment of Automated Facial Recognition (AFR) and Privacy Implications under SDG 16: Building Effective and Accountable Institutions for Data Governance (Qingxiu Bu) 13. Rethinking the Rule of Law for Sustainable Development in the Age of AI (Imad Antoine Ibrahim, Jon Truby and Paolo Davide Farah)