On Actor Network Theory and the role of AI in climate change
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https://doi.org/10.31637/epsir-2024-518Keywords:
Climate change, actant, artificial intelligence, anti-program, associations, power relations, intensive useAbstract
Introduction: Climate change is presented as the greatest challenge for humanity. Methodology: However, new technologies, especially artificial intelligence (AI), offer fundamental tools to understand this phenomenon and develop mechanisms to mitigate it, adapt to it and even combat it. Results: Despite its potential benefits, AI also plays a significant role in contributing to the problems associated with climate change, both in its training, implementation and maintenance process, and in its notable consumption of resources such as water. Discussions and Conclusion: Therefore, this essay seeks to employ the tools and concepts of Actor-Network Theory to critically analyze the role of AI in climate change: how its implementation and governance can be designed to maximize benefits and minimize negative impacts, as well as how to understand how it acts as an agent that can aggravate this global phenomenon.
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