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** "Artificial intelligence (AI) systems can use massive computational resources, raising sustainability concerns. This report aims to improve understanding of the environmental impacts of AI, and help measure and decrease AI’s negative effects while enabling it to accelerate action for the good of the planet. It distinguishes between the direct environmental impacts of developing, using and disposing of AI systems and related equipment, and the indirect costs and benefits of using AI applications. It recommends the establishment of measurement standards, expanding data collection, identifying AI-specific impacts, looking beyond operational energy use and emissions, and improving transparency and equity to help policy makers make AI part of the solution to sustainability challenges." Published on November 15, 2022  
 
** "Artificial intelligence (AI) systems can use massive computational resources, raising sustainability concerns. This report aims to improve understanding of the environmental impacts of AI, and help measure and decrease AI’s negative effects while enabling it to accelerate action for the good of the planet. It distinguishes between the direct environmental impacts of developing, using and disposing of AI systems and related equipment, and the indirect costs and benefits of using AI applications. It recommends the establishment of measurement standards, expanding data collection, identifying AI-specific impacts, looking beyond operational energy use and emissions, and improving transparency and equity to help policy makers make AI part of the solution to sustainability challenges." Published on November 15, 2022  
 
** https://www.oecd.org/publications/measuring-the-environmental-impacts-of-artificial-intelligence-compute-and-applications-7babf571-en.htm
 
** https://www.oecd.org/publications/measuring-the-environmental-impacts-of-artificial-intelligence-compute-and-applications-7babf571-en.htm
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* “Environmental media” in the cloud: The making of critical data center art https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14614448221149942
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* Data Centers -> https://wiki.techinc.nl/Sustainability#Data_Centers
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Revision as of 13:26, 6 November 2023

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July 2023


Artificial Intelligence is Ecocide


AI’s detrimental impact towards reaching global climate targets is ecocide.(1) The damage is severe, wanton, environmental. If not halted, it will be widespread and long-term.



As part of capitalist technological systems, AI is soaking up fossil fuels, water, rare metals, land, while externalising pollution. (2)

Socio-political harm caused by AI comes from the centralisation of power and wealth in the hands of a few corporations, (3) usage of amassed data for surveillance and disinformation, exploitation (4) of human labour for short-term profit.



Say NO to AI

Countering “AI-as-ecocide” requires intervention and healing on all levels: international legislative, collective-organisational, civil disobedience, community efforts, personal education. 



Digitalisation must respect planetary boundaries. (5) We must refuse the production and operation of more digital devices, networking infrastructures, data centres. Energy and material consumption must be reduced. Extractivism, growth-oriented business models coupled with inequality must be replaced by economic policies that justly redistribute the benefits of technology (DeGrowth, eco-feminism, decolonizing, caring economies). Technical innovation must focus on repairing harm through the ethics of reciprocity and regeneration. 



If we want justice and safety (6) within planetary limits, we can have no anthropocentric, hierarchical, individualistic AI.



Alternatives to Artificial “Intelligence”



Let us embrace wider consciousnesses. Empathic! Relational! Artistic! Emotional! Lateral! Through ecophilia and biophilia, let us extend love beyond our species. Let us acknowledge collective intelligence: swarms, reefs, hives; ecosystems like forests, rivers, deserts; creatures such as octopi, mycelia, squirrels (7).


I mourn our ongoing extinction, and I am hoping for (re)connection, reciprocity, thriving together in a distant future.

References

  1. 1. “Computing as Ecocide”, by Rob Comber and Elina Eriksson: https://limits.pubpub.org/pub/a8h46wqy/release/1
  2. 2. “The Climate Cost of the AI”, by Wim Vanderbauwhede https://labs.ripe.net/author/wim-vanderbauwhede/the-climate-cost-of-the-ai-revolution/
  3. 3. “AI’s biggest risk is the corporations that control them”, by Meredith Whittaker: https://www.fastcompany.com/90892235/researcher-meredith-whittaker-says-ais-biggest-risk-isnt-consciousness-its-the-corporations-that-control-them
  4. 4. “Will AI become >capital’s willing executioners<“, by Ted Chiang: https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-artificial-intelligence/will-ai-become-the-new-mckinsey
  5. 5. “Political Demands”, by “Bits & Bäume 2022” https://bits-und-baeume.org/assets/images/pdfs/Bits_und_Baeume_Political_Demands_english.pdf
  6. 6. “A just world on a safe planet: quantifying Earth System Boundaries”, by Johan Rockström, Joyeeta Gupta, et.al https://www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/latest-news/a-just-world-on-a-safe-planet-first-study-quantifying-earth-system-boundaries
  7. 7. “Environmental Impact of Internet: Urgency, De-Growth, Rebellion”, by Vesna Manojlovic https://labs.ripe.net/author/becha/environmental-impact-of-internet-urgency-de-growth-rebellion/

Links

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AI Links

  • YouTube playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVR6MM6mHmBRtvYlP_bF6qTP3YomEwGqE
    • with 10 interviews developing an AI critique over the past two years, which I made for Training the Archive. The interviewees include Maya Indira Ganesh, Anna Ridler, Alexa Steinbrück, Mar Hicks, Gabriel Pereira, Elisa Giardina Papa, Matteo Pasquinelli, Nick Couldry and Ulisses Mejias, Adam Harvey, and Magda Tyzlik-Carver.


Articles

“AI completes the enclosure that the autonomists called the social factory,
where capitalist relations of power extend to the smallest corner of social
reproduction. But the very generalisability of these algorithmic
exploitations creates the ground for a recomposition of resistance from
forms of relationality that still escape the algorithmic gaze.” ― Dan McQuillan


  • philosopher Émile Torres and Dr. Gebru who together coined the TESCREAL acronym “which stands for a world view of Transhumanism, Extropianism, Singularitarianism, Cosmism, Rationalism, Effective Altruism, and Longtermism.” 
 alarmist fears / doomerism / rooted in a hierarchical , anthropocentric and zero-sum view of intelligence

AI Pappers

  • The AI footprint (OECD) : Measuring the environmental impacts of artificial intelligence compute and applications
    • "Artificial intelligence (AI) systems can use massive computational resources, raising sustainability concerns. This report aims to improve understanding of the environmental impacts of AI, and help measure and decrease AI’s negative effects while enabling it to accelerate action for the good of the planet. It distinguishes between the direct environmental impacts of developing, using and disposing of AI systems and related equipment, and the indirect costs and benefits of using AI applications. It recommends the establishment of measurement standards, expanding data collection, identifying AI-specific impacts, looking beyond operational energy use and emissions, and improving transparency and equity to help policy makers make AI part of the solution to sustainability challenges." Published on November 15, 2022
    • https://www.oecd.org/publications/measuring-the-environmental-impacts-of-artificial-intelligence-compute-and-applications-7babf571-en.htm


People

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