AI in the Wild: Sustainability in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
暫譯: 野外的人工智慧:人工智慧時代的可持續性
Dauvergne, Peter
- 出版商: Summit Valley Press
- 出版日期: 2020-09-15
- 售價: $1,250
- 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $1,188
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 272
- 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
- ISBN: 0262539330
- ISBN-13: 9780262539333
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人工智慧
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商品描述
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.
Dauvergne finds that corporations and states often use AI in ways that are antithetical to sustainability. The competition to profit from AI is entrenching technocratic management, revving up resource extraction, and turbocharging consumption, as consumers buy new smart devices (and discard their old, less-smart ones). Smart technology is helping farmers grow crops more efficiently, but also empowering the agrifood industry. Moreover, states are weaponizing AI to control citizens, suppress dissent, and aim cyberattacks at rival states.
Is there a way to harness the power of AI for environmental and social good? Dauvergne argues for precaution and humility as guiding principles in the deployment of AI.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
檢視使用人工智慧推進全球可持續性的潛在好處與風險。
配備夜視功能的無人機正在追蹤非洲野生動物公園和保護區中的大象和犀牛盜獵者;智能潛水器正在拯救澳大利亞大堡礁的珊瑚免受食肉海星的侵害;回收的手機則提醒巴西森林護林員注意非法伐木的聲音。人工智慧的工具在全球可持續性戰鬥中被越來越多地應用。然而,彼得·道弗根(Peter Dauvergne)警告我們,在宣稱人工智慧是地球的救世主時應該保持謹慎。在AI in the Wild中,道弗根避免了人工智慧產業的炒作,提供了一個批判性的觀點,探討使用人工智慧推進全球可持續性的潛在好處與風險。
道弗根發現,企業和國家經常以與可持續性相悖的方式使用人工智慧。從人工智慧中獲利的競爭正在加深技術官僚管理,推動資源開採,並加速消費,因為消費者購買新的智能設備(並丟棄舊的、不那麼智能的設備)。智能技術幫助農民更有效地種植作物,但也在賦能農食產業。此外,國家正在將人工智慧武器化,以控制公民、壓制異議,並對競爭國家發動網絡攻擊。
是否有辦法利用人工智慧的力量來促進環境和社會的福祉?道弗根主張在部署人工智慧時應以謹慎和謙遜作為指導原則。
作者簡介
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
彼得·道維根(Peter Dauvergne)是英屬哥倫比亞大學的國際關係教授。他是《富人的環保主義》(Environmentalism of the Rich)、《生態商業:大品牌對可持續性的接管》(Eco-Business: A Big-Brand Takeover of Sustainability,與簡·利斯特(Jane Lister)合著)以及《消費的陰影:對全球環境的影響》(The Shadows of Consumption: Consequences for the Global Environment)的作者,這些書籍均由麻省理工學院出版社(MIT Press)出版。