La Statale per l'AI – Environmental Intelligence: Reconceptualising AI conceptual foundations

This talk by Professor Sabrina Leonelli discusses one way to reframe the philosophy of AI to provide an alternative to the long history of interpreting Artificial Intelligence as the attempt to rationalize and mechanize human ingenuity, thereby transcending nature and its perceived limits. This is the idea of Environmental Intelligence; that is, the effort to develop digital technology and data-intensive algorithmic systems to sustain and enhance life on this planet. As I will discuss in the lecture, EI provides a framework to challenge and redefine the philosophical premises of AI in ways that can explicitly spur the responsible and sustainable development of computational technologies towards public interest goals.