Does the Metaverse Conflict with Social Goods? Challenges at the Intersection of the Metaverse and SDGs

Information technologies have impacted society and thus the social good in various fashions. The metaverse is one of the notable technologies today enabling an immersive virtual meta-world. The metaverse is a technological novelty and at the same time a social novelty with diverse implications for the way we live. In this paper we analyze the societal impacts of the metaverse from the perspective of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We thereby shed light on how the metaverse impacts the social good and based upon that we finally consider ethical design principles for the metaverse to support the SDGs.