Aimee van Wynsberghe

Sustainable AI is a Myth

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Produktbeschreibung

This open access book examines the real-world consequences of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) development and use on a global scale, including the detrimental impact of AI and ML on the environment. More broadly, it shows how we are living within the myth of the omnicompetence of AI/ML," in which AI can supposedly solve the world s most complicated problems without considering how deeply unsustainable the development, production and use of AI/ML actually is.

In recent years, the term Sustainable AI has come into vogue to suggest using AI/ML to achieve and/or accelerate the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including climate action (SDG 15), ending poverty (SDG 1), and gender equality (SDG 5) among others. By exploring the ways in which Sustainable AI is a myth, this book invites readers to imagine AI/ML as broken in the sense that there are serious societal and environmental concerns related to the design and development of AI/ML that demand repair. Scholars, students, professionals, policymakers, and the public learn about the concept of Sustainable AI alongside the breadth of environmental and social costs associated with AI/ML development. Readers are left with a desire to, and the tools to, imagine a sustainable future with AI/ML.

Produktdetails

• Philosophy and Ethics of AI 1
• Verlag: Springer, Berlin; Alexander Von Humboldt-Stiftung; Sp
• Erscheinungstermin: Mai 2026
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783032132642
• Artikelnr.: 75835178

Autorenporträt

Prof. Dr. Aimee van Wynsberghe is the Alexander von Humboldt Professor for the Applied Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (AI) at the University of Bonn. She is director of the Institute for Science and Ethics (IWE) and founder of the Bonn Sustainable AI Lab. She is a member of the German Academy for Sciences and Literature, Mainz, Advisory Board member for the DAAD Konrad Zuse Schools of Excellence in AI and has served as a member of the European Commission's High-Level Expert Group on AI. Prof. van Wynsberghe is author of the book Healthcare Robots: Ethics, Design and Implementation and founding editor for the international peer-reviewed journal AI & Ethics (Springer Nature). She regularly appears in the media to promote awareness of the pressing ethical issues surrounding the design and use of robotics and AI in society.