Artificial Intelligence and the Environmental Crisis: Can Technology Really Save the World?

Skene, Keith Ronald

商品描述

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.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

這是一本激進且具挑戰性的書籍,主張人工智慧需要建立在生態智慧而非人類智慧的基礎上,才能實現創造更美好世界的承諾。這將引領人類歷史上最大的轉型,一個重新整合的時代。我們的存在完全依賴於地球系統中的背景,因此,人工智慧必須也要扎根於這個背景中,擁抱新興性、相互聯繫和即時反饋。我們將發現在社會、經濟和環境領域中有許多積極的結果,並討論如何實現這種轉型。

主要特點:
- 突顯了當前人工智慧思維中的一個關鍵弱點,威脅到實現更美好世界的任何希望。
- 強調了認識到系統理論是任何希望積極轉變我們世界的技術的基礎的重要性。
- 強調了對人工智慧的激進新方法的需求,基於生態系統。
- 解釋了為什麼生態系統智慧而非人類智慧提供了最佳的人工智慧框架。
- 探討了這種新方法將如何影響社會、環境和經濟三個領域,引領一個新的重新整合時代。

作者簡介

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.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Keith於1965年出生於愛爾蘭的歷史城市阿馬爾。他是澳大利亞羅德學者協會的前學者,曾在全球進行田野研究,從肯尼亞到喀爾巴阡山脈,從蘇格蘭高地到澳大利亞西南部,以及從越南到特立尼達。2010年,Keith創立了生物圈研究所(www.biosri.org),並成為首任所長。生物圈研究所致力於環境、經濟和社會可持續性的前沿研究,重點在於探討我們在地球系統中的位置的基本對話。