Is AI Good for the Planet?

Benedetta Brevini (University of Sydney)

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Polity Press
15 October 2021

The environment; Artificial intelligence

Series: 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.

By: Benedetta Brevini (University of Sydney)
Imprint: Polity Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 188mm, Width: 122mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 159g
ISBN: 9781509547951
ISBN 10: 1509547959
Series: Digital Futures
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 15 October 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

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

Reviews for Is AI Good for the Planet?

Benedetta Brevini lays out the risks posed to our planet by a headlong and indiscriminate embrace of AI, and what we can do to manage them. I urge you to read this essential book. Michael E. Mann, author of The New Climate War Bold, perceptive, and urgently topical, Is AI Good for the Planet? both informs and inspires. Frank Pasquale, author of New Laws of Robotics [T]he book may serve as a spark for public discourse and an urgent call to action for more research, policy action and public advocacy on this subject. Given its brevity and its non-technical, opinionated and engaging writing style, it is well-positioned to achieve this aim. Prometheus