Description
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.
Table of Contents
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
