If Only the Lake Could Talk

If Only the Lake Could Talk is meant as a prompt for organisations, businesses and individuals to consider how AI could help us transition to a more sustainable world and what this AI-enabled world could look like. It is not intended as a comprehensive AI guide, tool or workbook, nor does it claim to have all the answers or be a research report. Instead, by using it as a jumping-off point, we hope you can create some visions and solutions of your own towards a sustainable future where you dare to dream.

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Chapters
AI and Sustainable Futures	Preface
Demanding Transparency and Accountability	Future 1
On AI Moral Advisors for Sustainability	Commentary
Rethinking Governance for Resilient AI Futures	Commentary
Putting Nature Back at the Centre	Future 2
AI, Spirituality and Indigenous Wisdom	Commentary
Disruptive Possibilities: AI and Planetary Health	Commentary
Facilitating Decision-making and Governance	Future 3
Building and Regulating Ethics into AI	Commentary
Simulation Day	Commentary
Enhancing Human Capabilities and Creativity	Future 4
AI and the Challenge of Speculative Ethics	Commentary
Is AI Creative or a Tool for Creativity?	Commentary
Humanity Maturing with Technology	Epilogue
If the Lake Could Talk	Epilogue

Each part weaves together imagined futures building on some of the most prominent and thought-provoking signals and trends currently driving sustainability, AI and the crossover between the two: Demanding Transparency and Accountability; Putting Nature Back at the Centre; Facilitating Decision-making and Governance; and Enhancing Human Capabilities and Creativity. Together we ask, where are we heading, what do we need to do to steer ourselves in the right direction and what else might change? The book also includes essays from several contributors on questions triggered by the futures.