Artificial Intelligence and the Environmental Crisis: Can Technology Really Save the World?, by Keith R. Skene

John Gilbey is fascinated by an ambitious attempt to analyse and address the disastrous human impact on the biosphere

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June 11, 2020

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June 11, 2020

Twitter: @John_Gilbey

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