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Artificial Intelligence and the Environmental Crisis: Can Technology Really Save the World? [Kietas viršelis]

(Director, Biosphere Research Institute, Angus, UK)
  • Formatas: Hardback, 276 pages, aukštis x plotis: 234x156 mm, weight: 467 g
  • Išleidimo metai: 29-Jan-2020
  • Leidėjas: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 0367152002
  • ISBN-13: 9780367152000
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  • Formatas: Hardback, 276 pages, aukštis x plotis: 234x156 mm, weight: 467 g
  • Išleidimo metai: 29-Jan-2020
  • Leidėjas: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 0367152002
  • ISBN-13: 9780367152000
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A radical and challenging book which argues that artificial intelligence needs a completely different set of foundations, based on ecological intelligence rather than human intelligence, if it is to deliver on the promise of a better world. This can usher in the greatest transformation in human history, an age of re-integration. Our very existence is dependent upon our context within the Earth System, and so, surely, artificial intelligence must also be grounded within this context, embracing emergence, interconnectedness and real-time feedback. We discover many positive outcomes across the societal, economic and environmental arenas and discuss how this transformation can be delivered.

 

Key Features:

  • Identifies a key weakness in current AI thinking, that threatens any hope of a better world.
  • Highlights the importance of realizing that systems theory is an essential foundation for any technology that hopes to positively transform our world.
  • Emphasizes the need for a radical new approach to AI, based on ecological systems.
  • Explains why ecosystem intelligence, not human intelligence, offers the best framework for AI.
  • Examines how this new approach will impact on the three arenas of society, environment and economics, ushering in a new age of re-integration.

Recenzijos

"To call this text wide-ranging would be a significant understatement, and Skene has set himself an enormous task. Across 10 discrete sections, he seeks to define and illustrate not only the nature of human, and non-human, intelligence but also the diverse nature of ethical debate, the nature of economics and sustainability, the myriad threats that human exploitation poses to the biosphere, how these could be addressed and the dramatic structural changes to society that would be necessary. Moving beyond humanity to the (perhaps vexed) question of intelligence as a broader concept, Skene explores the concepts of swarm intelligence and the wisdom of crowds, culminating in an exposition of how 'ecosystem intelligence' might be employed as a tool in developing sustainable global solutions to environmental management through the agency of artificial intelligence (AI) systems. This book is a passionate manifesto, a call to arms, by someone who clearly cares deeply about his subject." John Gilbey, Department of Computer Science, Aberystwyth University, An Excerpt from Times Higher Education

"In this remarkably cross-disciplinary study, environmental biologist and prolific science communicator Skene (Biosphere Research Institute) challenges the notion that technological advances such as applied artificial intelligence necessarily foster inequity and environmental degradation. The book includes hundreds of compelling examples, among them the success of big data in increasing the efficiency of agriculture while decreasing environmental cost and its potential to promote ethical consumption by supporting consumer alerts with respect to the environmental and social impacts of individual purchases. The book is extensively referenced but reads as a thought-provoking popular science book rather than a strictly academic work. As such, it will engage the general public and inspire lively classroom discussions."

D. P. Genereux, Broad Institute of Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Choice, Dec 2020 Vol. 58 No. 4

Preface v
Section I Artificial Intelligence And The Internet Of Things
1(18)
I.1 Nothing new under the Sun
2(2)
I.2 Oh, for a nice cold soda: The birth of the internet of things
4(5)
I.3 The two-month, ten-man project to transform the world
9(2)
I.4 Getting to grips with the jargon: Symbolic and non-symbolic AI
11(8)
Section II Should I Stay Or Should I Go? Ethics In Ai
19(14)
II.1 Choosing an ethical framework
19(2)
II.2 The strange case of Asimov's laws
21(2)
II.3 Free will and moral judgement
23(3)
II.4 The confused owl of Minerva: Dangers of a moral vacuum
26(1)
II.5 Who's in charge of the big bad wolf?
27(3)
II.6 What should a declaration of AI rights look like?
30(3)
Section III Gender, Race, Culture And Fear
33(23)
III.1 Gender issues in AI
33(7)
III.2 Racial issues in AI
40(3)
III.3 Cultural issues in AI
43(2)
III.4 Fear and loathing in AI
45(11)
Section IV The Thinker: Human Intelligence
56(10)
IV.1 Human intelligence: Carolus Linnaeus and his wise, wise men
56(3)
IV.2 So what is human intelligence?
59(5)
IV.3 Philosophy and intelligence: The framing of our thoughts
64(2)
Section V Other Modes Of Intelligence: Thinking Outside The Human Box
66(26)
V.1 Animal intelligence: Machiavellian sentience and the wisdom of the swarm
66(4)
V.2 Plant intelligence: Headless, brainless, dispersed intelligence
70(3)
V.3 Microbial intelligence: Gene-swapping revelry in the quorum
73(5)
V.4 Ecosystem intelligence: Systems thinking in the cathedral of thought
78(2)
V.5 Systems are non-linear
80(1)
V.6 Systems are emergent
81(2)
V.7 Systems are sub-optimal
83(5)
V.8 Systems rely of real-time feedback
88(4)
Section VI Highway To Hell: The Existentialist Threat Facing Humankind
92(22)
VI.1 A brief history of our path towards destruction
93(5)
VI.2 The five clear road signs that point towards criticality
98(8)
VI.3 Why ecological damage matters to us
106(2)
VI.4 Adam Smith and his invisible hand
108(2)
VI.5 Kuznets and his curve: How ninety five percent speculation led us badly astray
110(4)
Section VII Forget The Romans. What Has Ai Ever Done For Us?
114(36)
VII.2 Aland society
126(7)
VII.3 AI and the environment
133(7)
VII.4 Technology and sustainability: Bellicose bedfellows or Romeo and Juliet?
140(10)
Section VIII Imagining A New World
150(42)
VIII.1 The swallow whose nest was stolen: A salutary tale
150(3)
VIII.2 Blinded by the bling: Dashboard dogs and a disappearing sea
153(5)
VIII.3 What needs changed and what change do we need?
158(2)
VIII.4 The chains that bind: Taking responsibility for our footprints
160(6)
VIII.5 The Ogiek people and the new, improved invisible hand
166(6)
VIII.6 Lessons from the edge of the world: The St Kildan legacy
172(6)
VIII.7 The Garden of Eden complex: How not to fix the world
178(1)
VIII.8 The three cornerstones: Diversity, resilience and integration
179(2)
VIII.9 The central role of AI in feedback: Shaping our new world
181(11)
Section IX Barriers To Change
192(14)
IX.1 The five philosophical barriers
192(5)
IX.2 Structural barriers to change
197(2)
IX.3 The seven dragons: Psychological barriers
199(4)
IX.4 How AI can help overcome these barriers
203(3)
Section X Transition
206(13)
X.1 The nature of transition
206(1)
X.2 Studies in transition
207(3)
X.3 Why societal change is key
210(2)
X.4 How to manage societal change
212(4)
X.5 Requiem for the King of Phrygia
216(3)
Glossary 219(15)
References 234(26)
Index 260
Born in the historic city of Armagh in Ireland in 1965, Keith is a former Association of Rhodes Scholars of Australia Scholar, carrying out field research across the planet, from Kenya to the Carpathian mountains, from the Scottish Highlands to southwest Australia and from Vietnam to Trinidad. In 2010, Keith established the Biosphere Research Institute (www.biosri.org), becoming its first director. The Biosphere Research Institute does cutting-edge research on environmental, economic and societal sustainability, focusing on a fundamental dialogue around our place in the Earth system.