Not That Sustainable: Exploring AI’s Broader Socio-Environmental Impacts

 

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Autore: Conejo, Francisco
Natura: artículo original
Status:Versión publicada
Data di pubblicazione:2025
Descrizione:Marketers are increasingly imbuing AI into their products. Doing so enhances the various forms of value they offer. However, it also creates externalities. This commentary briefly addresses some of the broad socio-environmental dangers that AI poses. Environmentally, AI impacts pertain to pollution; land, electricity, and water usage; as well as communal life. Socially, AI impacts pertain to information quality, reality perceptions, interpersonal relationships, and mental health. The technology also undermines people’s independence, agency, culture, and purpose. This commentary thus strives to raise awareness among marketers of the potential consequences that their AI-enabled products might have, and to stimulate discussion as to how these impacts might be preemptively curtailed. Doing so is especially important for developing regions like Latin America, where socio-environmental impacts tend to be exacerbated.
Stato:Portal de Revistas UNED
Istituzione:Universidad Estatal a Distancia
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UNED
Lingua:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:revistas.investiga.uned.ac.cr:article/6212
Accesso online:https://revistas.uned.ac.cr/index.php/rna/article/view/6212
Keyword:AI
Artificial Intelligence
social
environmental
dangers
consequences
IA
Inteligência Artificial
ambiental
perigos
consequências
Intelligence Artificielle
environnemental
conséquences