THE TWIN FRONTIERS OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND AI IN THE POSTHUMAN AGE
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https://doi.org/10.48047/ty7pmx50Keywords:
Artificial Intelligence, agriculture, Braidotti, climate change, Deleuze, Heidegger, philosophy of technology, posthumanism, technics, technology, Vedanta, Yuk Hui.Abstract
In the 21st century, the primary frontiers that Man confronts pertain to climate and technology. In a world that
is planetarized through economic, technological and political linkages, these frontiers are intimately entwined. Rapid
advancements in AI promise to radically alter (or at the very least, augment) the political possibilities available to us in
combatting climate emergency. AI is already being incorporated into climate change policies. Its capacity for predicting
weather patterns and real-time monitoring, as well as for mapping deforestation, greenhouse emissions, icebergs, carbon
footprints, optimal crop selection, etc. continues to improve at an exponential rate. However, AI does not exist in
abstraction: it relies on very real, physical infrastructures, maintaining which entails enormous expenditure of energy. In
other words, its relationship with the environment, climate change, and sustainable development, is a double-edged sword.
This calls for policy frameworks that can regulate AI development, and facilitate its energy efficiency.
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