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Benedetta Brevini. Is AI Good for the Planet?
CONTENTS
Guide
List of Illustrations
Pages
Digital Futures Series
Is AI Good for the Planet?
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Introduction
The climate crisis is here to stay
ONE Defining AIBeyond the Hype. The promises of artificial intelligence
Global consultancies promise: Automating industry, boosting profits
Maximizing profits through AI: From the United States to China, excluding the developing world
Why techno-solutionism will not fix the world: AI as ‘mover’ of capital accumulation
Falling in love with technological determinism
The promise to stop the climate crisis: An AI for the environment
Beyond the awe and hype, what exactly is artificial intelligence?
Machine learning and deep learning
Artificial intelligence as material technologies: Machines, cables, dust, devices
Notes
TWO Controlling AIUnderstanding Data Capitalism. Data capitalism and AI: The indissoluble marriage
The most powerful AI companies in the United States
And what about the most powerful AI companies in China?
Who controls AI controls the debate
Notes
THREE Why AI Worsens the Climate Crisis
Computational power and algorithms
Energy and data centre carbon footprint
Additional environmental costs of data centres
Artificial intelligence, uberconsumerism and waste
AI runs on devices: The carbon footprint of information and communication technologies
Energy and waste disposal
Pushing fossil fuel extractionism
Notes
ConclusionAI and the Climate Crisis
What can we do?
Changing the debate: Participating in public discussions
Producing more research that is unbiased and objective
Demanding transparency
Breaking up the digital lords, breaking up data ownership
Further policy interventions
Bringing green activists and tech workers together to demand action on the climate crisis
Green tech literacy
A final word
Notes
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Consequently, when the artificial machine arrives in this future–present that is always inevitably imminent, it will manifest as a superior intelligence, capable of solving the problems that humans have created – and climate change in primis.
As citizens, we are almost left with the sense that this artificial entity that will come to rescue humanity, the world, and all living things is a divine, magic hand, a deus ex machina.
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