Interpretation Machines in Nature Conservation

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is playing a growing role in surveilling nature, creating and organizing data about nature conservation, and lubricating the circulation of pollution rights and other ecosystem service tokens in the international extractivist economy.

But what exactly is AI? What are its politics? What is its ecology? A presentation for a recent forum organized by the POLLEN Political Ecology Network introduces these and other questions about a phenomenon of increasing significance in the 21st century, and is now available from The Corner House upon request.

A video of the presentation is available at https://youtu.be/kunjLOYcw6M. A longer, book-length draft treatment of related issues can be found at http://www.thecornerhouse.org.uk/resource/labor-energy-and-colonial-geog....