AI is not inherently ecological. It is a civilisational amplifier. Attached to an extractive economy, it will accelerate extraction. Directed towards regeneration, it could help societies understand and coordinate environmental relationships previously too complex or fast-moving for human institutions to manage. Its distinctive ecological promise is not that AI is ‘green’. It is that AI can shorten the distance between an ecological signal and an institutional response. The decisive question, therefore, is not whether AI is environmentally good or bad. It is whether we can change the purpose for which intelligence itself is organised.
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