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Dark Machines

How Artificial Intelligence, Digitalization and Automation is Changing our Living Planet

By: Victor Galaz

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Dark Machines

How Artificial Intelligence, Digitalization and Automation is Changing our Living Planet

By: Victor Galaz

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.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040262236

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Global Environmental Governance, Technology and Politics

The Anthropocene Gap

By: Victor Galaz

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Global Environmental Governance, Technology and Politics

The Anthropocene Gap

By: Victor Galaz

We live on an increasingly human-dominated planet. Our impact on the Earth has become so huge that researchers now suggest that it merits its own geological epoch - the 'Anthropocene' - the age of humans. Combining theory development and case s

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1781955557

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Dark Machines

How Artificial Intelligence, Digitalization and Automation Is Changing Our Living Planet

By: Victor Galaz

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Dark Machines

How Artificial Intelligence, Digitalization and Automation Is Changing Our Living Planet

By: Victor Galaz

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.

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1032330309

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Global Environmental Governance, Technology and Politics

The Anthropocene Gap

By: Victor Galaz

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Global Environmental Governance, Technology and Politics

The Anthropocene Gap

By: Victor Galaz

This book shows clearly why shifts in power and governance must be core to our responses, but also that new, creative, multi-scale approaches are needed. Candid, reflective and richly-illustrated, this is a must-read contribution to the debate of our age about how to build sustainable futures.'--Melissa Leach, Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK. 'The planetary boundaries concept has generated wide discussion and debate, from the research community through to the institution and governance communities that seek to implement the concept. This book fills a very important gap in the discourse. It integrates the basic science that underpins the concept and the innovative approaches that governance researchers and practitioners are applying, to put planetary boundaries into practice.

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Dark Machines

Dark Machines

Global Environmental Governance, Technology and Politics

Global Environmental Governance, Technology and Politics

Dark Machines

Dark Machines

Global Environmental Governance, Technology and Politics

Global Environmental Governance, Technology and Politics

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