Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping the way investors analyse, interpret, and act on information. For sustainable investing, it offers both transformative potential and complex new challenges. The increasing integration of AI into environmental, social, and governance (ESG) processes raises critical questions about data quality, transparency, and accountability, as well as broader implications for markets, labour, and society.

To explore these themes, CFA Society Sweden’s ESG Committee convened a working group with finance and sustainability professionals representing diverse backgrounds, from credit analysis and asset management to ESG ratings, lending, and climate science. The conversation, informed by a series of selected expert podcast and webinar sessions, centred on two interrelated dimensions. First, how AI can be used to improve ESG data and analysis, where automation can address long-standing inefficiencies. Second, how AI itself represents an investment theme, as the technology’s expansion reshapes industries, resource use, and social structures. Together, these perspectives define the current frontier of sustainable finance in the age of AI.