2026 AI Whitepaper Bibliography
Foundational AI papers
Hinton G. et al., Learning representations by back-propagating errors, 1986, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), https://doi.org/10.1038/323533a0
Vaswani, A., et al., Attention Is All You Need, 2017, https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762
Industry surveys and reports
Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, Artificial Intelligence Index Report 2025, https://hai-production.s3.amazonaws.com/files/hai-ai-index-2025-policy-highlights.pdf
Swiss Banking Association, GenerativeAI in Banking - a comprehensive overview, 2025, https://www.swissbanking.ch/fr/themes/numerisation-innovation-et-cybersecurite/intelligence-artificielle-et-donnees
Lim, T., Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) and artificial intelligence in finance: State-of-the-art and research takeaways, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-024-10708-3
Xu, J., AI in ESG for Financial Institutions: An Industrial Survey, 2024, https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05541
Brière, M., Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Finance: Why it May Help, 2024, https://ssrn.com/abstract=4252329
Elouidani, R., et al., Artificial Intelligence for a Sustainable Finance: A Bibliometric Analysis, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26384-2_46
Al-Sartawi, A., et al., The role of artificial intelligence in sustainable finance, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1080/20430795.2022.2057405
Boukherouaa, E., et al., Powering the Digital Economy: Opportunities and Risks of Artificial Intelligence in Finance (DP/2021/024), 2021, https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/Departmental-Papers-Policy-Papers/Issues/2021/10/21/Powering-the-Digital-Economy-Opportunities-and-Risks-of-Artificial-Intelligence-in-Finance-494717
KPMG Switzerland, The Use of AI in Sustainable Finance, 2024, https://kpmg.com/ch/en/insights/esg-sustainability/sustainable-finance/artificial-intelligence-use.html
IMD, Leveraging AI for Smarter Sustainability, 2024, https://www.imd.org/
Behera, I., et al., The Societal Impact of Artificial Intelligence in Sustainable Investment Strategies, 2024, https://www.igi-global.com/chapter/the-societal-impact-of-artificial-intelligence-in-sustainable-investment-strategies/345123
Adeoye, O., et al., Artificial Intelligence in ESG investing: Enhancing portfolio management and performance, 2024, https://ijsra.net/sites/default/files/IJSRA-2024-0305.pdf
Pashang, S., et al., AI for Sustainable Finance: Governance Mechanisms for Institutional and Societal Approaches, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21147-8_12
Boston Consulting Group, AI and the Next Wave of Transformation, 2023, https://www.bcg.com/publications/2023/ai-and-the-next-wave-of-transformation
Research papers
Mousavian Anaraki, S., et al., Large language models for sustainability reporting: A systematic review and research agenda, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sftr.2025.101494
Calamai, T., et al., Corporate Greenwashing Detection in Text - a Survey, 2025, https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.07541
Zeng, F., et al., An optimized machine learning framework for predicting and interpreting corporate ESG greenwashing behavior, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0316287
Li, Y., et al., Machine learning detection of manipulative environmental disclosures, 2025, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-29621-y
Colesanti-Senni, C., et al., Using AI to Assess the Decision-Usefulness of Corporates’ Nature-related Disclosures, 2024, https://ssrn.com/abstract=4860331
Ni, J., et al., CHATREPORT: Democratizing Sustainability Disclosure Analysis through LLM-based Tools, 2023, https://ssrn.com/abstract=4476733
Leippold, M., et al., ClimateBERT: A Pretrained Language Model for Climate-Related Text, 2021, https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.12010
Hauser, L., et al., Corporate Biodiversity and Water Impact and Risk: Seven Key Principles for Leveraging Insights From Satellite Remote Sensing, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1029/2024EF005474
Schwendner, P., et al., Bio-Value-at-Risk: A Concept to Assessing the Implications of Biodiversity Risks on Portfolio Management using Geospatial Analysis, 2024, https://ssrn.com/abstract=4784271
Caldecott, B., et al., Spatial finance: practical and theoretical contributions to financial analysis, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1080/20430795.2022.2153007
Patterson, D., et al., The Biodiversity Data Puzzle, 2022, https://www.wwf.org.uk/sites/default/files/2022-12/The-Biodiversity-Data-Puzzle.pdf
Kotsch, R., Network Analysis of the Global Trade of "Hot Air": Key Lessons for the Paris Agreement, 2024, https://ssrn.com/abstract=5038486
Betz, R., et al., The Carbon Market Challenge: Preventing Abuse Through Effective Governance, 2022, https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/carbon-market-challenge/9261122253200C956EAF02B5C9AF53C8
Governance and regulation
International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO), Artificial Intelligence in Capital Markets: Use Cases, Risks, and Challenges, 2025, https://www.iosco.org/library/pubdocs/pdf/IOSCOPD788.pdf
Bank for International Settlements (BIS), The use of artificial intelligence for policy purposes, 2025, https://www.bis.org/publ/othp100.pdf
FINMA (Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority), Guidance 08/2024: Governance and risk management when using artificial intelligence, 2024, https://www.finma.ch/en/news/2024/12/20241218-mm-finma-am-08-24/
FINMA, Artificial intelligence: FINMA sets out its supervisory expectations, 2024, https://www.finma.ch/en/documentation/dossier/dossier-fintech/kuenstliche-intelligenz/
European Union, Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (Artificial Intelligence Act), 2024, https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1689/oj/eng
European Banking Authority (EBA), Special topic – Artificial intelligence, 2024, https://www.eba.europa.eu/publications-and-media/publications/special-topic-artificial-intelligence
Bank for International Settlements (BIS), Accelerated Data Science, AI and GeoAI for Sustainable Finance in Central Banking and Supervision, 2024, https://www.bis.org/bcbs/publ/d560.htm
Bank for International Settlements (BIS), Enabling climate risk analysis using generative AI, 2024, https://www.bis.org/publ/othp84.htm
Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Innovation Hub, Project Gaia: enabling climate risk analysis , 2024, https://www.bis.org/about/bisih/topics/suptech_regtech/gaia.htm
World Economic Forum (WEF), Responsible AI Playbook for Investors, 2024, https://www.weforum.org/publications/responsible-ai-playbook-for-investors/
United Nations, Artificial intelligence (AI), 2024, https://www.un.org/en/global-issues/artificial-intelligence
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework (AI RMF 1.0), 2023, https://www.nist.gov/itl/ai-risk-management-framework
Data portals and other reference sources
Network for Greening the Financial System, NGFS Scenarios Portal, 2024, https://www.ngfs.net/ngfs-scenarios-portal/
Our World in Data, Artificial Intelligence, https://ourworldindata.org/artificial-intelligence
Gantz, J., et al., The Digitization of the World from Edge to Core, 2018, https://www.seagate.com/files/www-content/our-story/trends/files/idc-seagate-dataage-whitepaper.pdf
Google, 2025 Environmental Report, https://www.gstatic.com/gumdrop/sustainability/google-2025-environmental-report.pdf
Microsoft, 2025 Environmental Sustainability Report, https://cdn-dynmedia-1.microsoft.com/is/content/microsoftcorp/microsoft/msc/documents/presentations/CSR/2025-Microsoft-Environmental-Sustainability-Report-PDF.pdf
