how artificial intelligence, digitalization and automation is changing our... living planet Galaz, Victor. creator text xx S.l.] ROUTLEDGE 2025 monographic eng

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1 online resource 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 nave 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. Artificial intelligence Social aspects Science Social aspects Technology Social aspects POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / International Security POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General Q335 9781040262238 1040262236 9781003317814 1003317812 9781040262207 1040262201 https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003317814 http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003317814 http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf OCoLC-P 241113 20251030122236.0 9781003317814 eng