As artificial intelligence reshapes the world, digital rights advocates warn of the downsides, ranging from the technologies' environmental footprint to surveillance and "data colonialism."
The collapse of complex human societies remains poorly understood and
current theories fail to model important features of historical examples of collapse.
Relationships among resources, capital, waste, and production form the basis for an
ecological model of collapse in which production fails to meet maintenance
requirements for existing capital. Societies facing such crises after having depleted
essential resources risk catabolic collapse, a self-reinforcing cycle of contraction
converting most capital to waste. This model allows key features of historical
examples of collapse to be accounted for, and suggests parallels between successional
processes in nonhuman ecosystems and collapse phenomena in human societies.
The collapse of complex human societies remains poorly understood and
current theories fail to model important features of historical examples of collapse.
Relationships among resources, capital, waste, and production form the basis for an
ecological model of collapse in which production fails to meet maintenance
requirements for existing capital. Societies facing such crises after having depleted
essential resources risk catabolic collapse, a self-reinforcing cycle of contraction
converting most capital to waste. This model allows key features of historical
examples of collapse to be accounted for, and suggests parallels between successional
processes in nonhuman ecosystems and collapse phenomena in human societies.
The company’s goal to be carbon negative by 2030 is harder to reach, but President Brad Smith says the good AI can do for the world will outweigh its environmental impact.
Fuzzy Loss functions for GANs, Learning Analytics, Next Generation AI and Sustainability, Deep Learning for Melodic Frameworks
Speakers:
Prof. Priti S. Sajja, Sardar Patel University, India
Prof. Elvira Popescu, University of Craiova, Romania
Dr. Celestine Iwendi, University of Bolton, UK
Dr. Vishnu S. Pendyala, San Jose State University, USA
Date: Tuesday, July 12, 2022
The EU's sustainable product policy, ecodesign legislation and energy labelling are effective tools for improving the energy efficiency and sustainability of products.
S. Monserrate. MIT Case Studies in Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing, (27.01.2022)https://mit-serc.pubpub.org/pub/the-cloud-is-material.