Is AI Good for the Planet?

by Brevini, Benedetta

• ISBN13: 9781509547944
• ISBN10: 1509547940
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781509547968
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2021-12-28
• Publisher: Polity
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Summary

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.

Author Biography

Benedetta Brevini is a journalist and Senior Lecturer in Communication and Media at the University of Sydney.

Table of Contents

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