Is ai good for the planet?
Presented as a solution to the greatest challenges of our time, from chronic diseases to cybersecurity threats and the climate, ai is also a significant contributor to the climate crisis. ai runs on technology that depletes scarce resources and relies on data centres that demand excessive energy use.
Journalist & Professor in the political economy of communication Benedetta Brevini lays out the risks posed to our planet by a headlong and indiscriminate embrace of Ai, and shares what we can do to manage them. She resolutely brings the climate crisis to the centre of debates around Ai, exposing its environmental costs and forcing us to reconsider our understanding of the technology.
We should no longer ignore Ai-generated environmental problems. It's time for a green agenda for Ai.
about The Host
dr Benedetta Brevini is an expert in Critical Ai, the relationship between data capitalism, ai and the climate crisis and environmental communication. She is currently Associate Professor of political economy of communication at the University of Sydney, and also Visiting Professor at the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University and Senior Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Before joining academia she worked as a journalist in Milan, New York and London for Cnbc, Rai and the Guardian and held tenured positions at City University London and Brunel University London. She writes on The Guardian’s Comment is Free and contributes to a number of print and web publications including South China Morning Post, OpenDemocracy and the Conversation. She is currently working on a new book project on Communication, Data Capitalism and the Climate Emergency.
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Journalist & Professor in the political economy of communication Benedetta Brevini lays out the risks posed to our planet by a headlong and indiscriminate embrace of Ai, and shares what we can do to manage them. She resolutely brings the climate crisis to the centre of debates around Ai, exposing its environmental costs and forcing us to reconsider our understanding of the technology.
We should no longer ignore Ai-generated environmental problems. It's time for a green agenda for Ai.
about The Host
dr Benedetta Brevini is an expert in Critical Ai, the relationship between data capitalism, ai and the climate crisis and environmental communication. She is currently Associate Professor of political economy of communication at the University of Sydney, and also Visiting Professor at the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University and Senior Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Before joining academia she worked as a journalist in Milan, New York and London for Cnbc, Rai and the Guardian and held tenured positions at City University London and Brunel University London. She writes on The Guardian’s Comment is Free and contributes to a number of print and web publications including South China Morning Post, OpenDemocracy and the Conversation. She is currently working on a new book project on Communication, Data Capitalism and the Climate Emergency.
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