Description
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: Benedetta Brevini
Publisher: Polity Press
Published: 01/06/2022
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 7.40h x 4.80w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9781509547951
ISBN10: 1509547959
BISAC Categories:
- Computers | Artificial Intelligence | General
- Social Science | Human Geography
About the Author
Benedetta Brevini is a journalist and Associate Professor in the Department of Media and Communications at the University of Sydney.