Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Women in AI and Sustainability, Alina Patelli,Anikó Ekárt, Editör, Springer, Heidelberg, ss.47-78, 2025
The world is currently facing a variety of interrelated challenges. Increasing inequalities, resource overuse, the emergence of artificial intelligence, and impending climate chaos are among the most pressing. This chapter discusses these challenges with a focus on the emergence of new green technologies, the potential these various technologies have to help us respond to these challenges, the additional problems that these technologies might unfortunately introduce, and the material sciences and robotics technologies that are necessary to resolve this paradox. The chapter discusses the current legal and regulatory environment which the international community has developed. As described, it is through such mechanisms that global institutions try to shape and incentives how actors and institutions deploy their resources to engage with these challenges. The chapter also outlines some of the social and economic concerns which have nonetheless been observed within specific contexts and locations where such engagement takes place. In particular, this section highlights the various unexpected impacts of green tech-driven extraction and pollution, illustrating the ‘externalities’ of innovation. The chapter explores the potential that robotics technology has to help us, in turn, avoid or provide remedy for some of these externalities. In particular, this section describes research into some of the ways robotics can avoid both the human and environmental harm that might be caused by green technology. However, there is further development remaining if robotics are to achieve these lofty goals, and Sect. 4 provides a description of some of the necessary materials science that will be required, including discussing research into materials that are necessary for rigid and soft robotic systems. The conclusion will bring this all together, highlighting again the central importance of truly, perhaps even radically, interdisciplinary research as we face these various interconnected challenges.