Dark machines: how artificial intelligence, digitalization and automation is changing our living planet

This book offers a critical primer on how Artificial Intelligence and digitalization are shaping our planet and the risks posed to society and environmental sustainability.As the pressure of human activities accelerates on Earth, so too does the hope that digital and artificially intelligent technol...

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1. Verfasser: Galaz, Victor 1971- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Routledge 2025
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Zusammenfassung:This book offers a critical primer on how Artificial Intelligence and digitalization are shaping our planet and the risks posed to society and environmental sustainability.As the pressure of human activities accelerates on Earth, so too does the hope that digital and artificially intelligent technologies will be able to help us deal with dangerous climate and environmental change. Technology giants, international think-tanks and policy-makers are increasingly keen to advance agendas that contribute to "AI for Good" or "AI for the Planet." Dark Machines explores why it is naïve and dangerous to assume converging forces of a growing climate crisis and technological change will act synergistically to the benefit of people and the planet. It explores why AI and associated digital technologies may lead to accelerated discrimination, automated inequality, and augmented diffusion of misinformation, while simultaneously amplifying risks for people and the planet. We face a profound challenge. We can either allow AI accelerate the loss of resilience of people and our planet, or we can decide to act forcefully in ways that redirects its destructive direction.This urgent book will be of interest to students and researchers with an interest in Artificial Intelligence, digitalization and automation, social and political dimensions of science and technology, and sustainability sciences
Beschreibung:1. Introduction to Dark Machines  2. A forever changing planet  3. Seeing the world through the eyes of intelligent machines  4. Automating our living planet  5. Capital, intelligent machines and sustainability  6. Behind the crypto-hype  7. Machine intelligent misinformation  8. Nature, emotions and machines  9. Algorithmic resistance for the planet  10. Towards planetary responsible AI
Beschreibung:232 Seiten
ISBN:9781032330303
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