This seminar explores the boundaries among artificial intelligence (AI), business, and society from a systemic and paradoxical perspective, emphasizing their implications for grand challenges related to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It investigates how SDG interactions shape regional priorities, generating tensions and opportunities, thereby supporting policymaking and global sustainability transitions amid AI systems and deep uncertainty

On Monday January 26th from 12-13h, we’re joined by visiting professor Farley Nobre for our first CCIT Seminar of 2026. His talk, titled Artificial Intelligence and the Sustainable Development Goals: Understanding Tensions and Synergies Across North–South will deal with questions of global inequality and climate change in the age of AI. Farley Nobre is a professor leading AI and Sustainable Systems at the Graduate Program in Business Administration at the Federal University of Paraná (BR). His Ph.D. thesis from the University of Birmingham (2005), “On Cognitive Machines in Organizations,” is a groundbreaking work that advances the theory and practice of AI in management and organization research.

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