Is AI Good for the Planet?

1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-5095-4794-4
Verlag: Polity Press

Buch, Englisch, 160 Seiten, Format (B × H): 124 mm x 193 mm, Gewicht: 236 g

Reihe: Digital Futures

Artificial intelligence (AI) is presented as a solution to the greatest challenges of our time, from global pandemics and chronic diseases to cybersecurity threats and the climate crisis. But AI also contributes to the climate crisis by running on technology that depletes scarce resources and by relying on data centres that demand excessive energy use.

Is AI Good for the Planet? brings the climate crisis to the centre of debates around AI, exposing its environmental costs and forcing us to reconsider our understanding of the technology. It reveals why we should no longer ignore the environmental problems generated by AI. Embracing a green agenda for AI that puts the climate crisis at centre stage is our urgent priority.

Engaging and passionately written, this book is essential reading for scholars and students of AI, environmental studies, politics, and media studies and for anyone interested in the connections between technology and the environment.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brevini, Benedetta

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Künstliche Intelligenz

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter One

Defining AI: beyond the Hype

Chapter Two

Controlling AI: understanding data capitalism

Chapter Three

Why AI worsens the Climate Crisis

Conclusion

AI and the Climate Crisis: what we can do about it

Notes

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Benedetta Brevini is a journalist and Associate Professor in the Department of Media and Communications at the University of Sydney.