{"product_id":"dark-machines-victor-galaz-9781032330273","title":"Dark Machines: How Artificial Intelligence, Digitalization and Automation Is Changing Our Living Planet","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book offers a critical primer on how Artificial Intelligence and digitalization are shaping our planet and the risks posed to society and environmental sustainability.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs 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.\" \u003ci\u003eDark Machines\u003c\/i\u003e explores why it is na?ve 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Victor Galaz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1032330279\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781032330273\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/16\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.73lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.49d","brand":"Victor Galaz","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46721449722111,"sku":"9781032330273","price":48.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b8b4d9b3-d1f3-4d7b-887e-7942d830f85c.jpg?v=1742752903","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/dark-machines-victor-galaz-9781032330273","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}