AI in the Wild

Peter Dauvergne (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2020
MIT Press (Verlag)
978-0-262-53933-3 (ISBN)

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Examining the potential benefits and risks of using artificial intelligence to advance global sustainability.Drones with night vision are tracking elephant and rhino poachers in African wildlife parks and sanctuaries; smart submersibles are saving coral from carnivorous starfish on Australia's Great Barrier Reef; recycled cell phones alert Brazilian forest rangers to the sound of illegal logging. The tools of artificial intelligence are being increasingly deployed in the battle for global sustainability. And yet, warns Peter Dauvergne, we should be cautious in declaring AI the planet's savior. In AI in the Wild, Dauvergne avoids the AI industry-powered hype and offers a critical view, exploring both the potential benefits and risks of using artificial intelligence to advance global sustainability.

Dauvergne finds that corporations and states often use AI in ways that are antithetical to sustainability. The competition to profit from AI is entrenching technocratic management, revving up resource extraction, and turbocharging consumption, as consumers buy new smart devices (and discard their old, less-smart ones). Smart technology is helping farmers grow crops more efficiently, but also empowering the agrifood industry. Moreover, states are weaponizing AI to control citizens, suppress dissent, and aim cyberattacks at rival states.

Is there a way to harness the power of AI for environmental and social good? Dauvergne argues for precaution and humility as guiding principles in the deployment of AI.

Peter Dauvergne is Professor of International Relations at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of Environmentalism of the Rich, Eco-Business: A Big-Brand Takeover of Sustainability (with Jane Lister), and The Shadows of Consumption: Consequences for the Global Environment, all published by the MIT Press.

Series Foreword
Preface
1 Introduction: Genius or Madness?
I The Global Political Economy of AI
2 Datafying Life on Earth
3 The Rising Power of AI
II The Prospects and Limits of AI
4 Conserving and Rewilding the Earth
5 Enhancing Eco-Business
6 Smart Products
7 Smart Cities and Farms
III The Dangers of AI
8 Deepening Inequality and Injustice
9 Accelerating Extraction and Consumption
10 The Intelligent Eyes of Repression
11 Weapons of Destruction
12 Conclusion: Navigating the Shoals of Hubris
Notes
Further Readings
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	10.09.2020
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Informatik ► Theorie / Studium ► Künstliche Intelligenz / Robotik
Themenwelt	Technik
ISBN-10	0-262-53933-0 / 0262539330
ISBN-13	978-0-262-53933-3 / 9780262539333
Zustand	Neuware