Asset owners look to artificial intelligence to fill ESG data gaps

Asset owners are increasingly using artificial intelligence (AI) to collect or infer ESG information across public and private markets, even as they acknowledge the limitations of these new technologies and the importance of human mediation.  AI has played a central role in the development of the ESG taxonomy employed by Sustainable Development Investment Asset Owner Platform (SDI AOP), an initiative founded by AustralianSuper, PGGM, APG and Canada’s British Columbia Investment Ma…