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This paper explores a new artificial political ecology through a novel digital methodology. The emotional impacts of the replacement of living turfgrass landscapes with synthetic simulacra are researched via a netnography of animated and polarised online discussion. We investigate how the cultural use of domestic lawns has extended into the creation of non-living artificial lawns and how the environmental values of these new landscapes are debated. Synthetic polymer (plastic) grasses are increasingly being used as alternatives to turfgrass in domestic gardens, changing urban ecologies. We examine the emotional landscapes that are reproduced in online discourse. Paul Robbins showed that a certain suite of behaviours constitutes 'Lawn People'. Here we demonstrate that 'Artificial Lawn People' act in reference to cultural expectations of a 'good' lawn to produce non-living, homogeneous, green and tidy gardens, yet their actions spark fierce criticism from others who do not value this new synthetic nature. Our research involved analysis of 948 online discussion posts, and introduces a secondary notion of 'artificial people' as our subjects were anonymous contributors to virtual public debates on the environment: generating impassioned polyvocal contestation. Mumsnet.com is a space of heated discussion between proponents and opponents of artificial lawns. We identify three topics: i) emotional responses: artificial grass is polarising, and its social value contested; ii) bio-physical affects: plastic fibres impact human and non-human life; and iii) environmental values: turfgrass replacement influences local and global political ecologies. The conclusions shed light on the dynamic relationships between the emotional values of living and non-living landscapes.

International audience ; BOX is an artwork that exposes some of the social and political impact of artificial intelligence, computer vision, and automation. The project uses a commercially available computer vision system that predicts the interactor's ethnicity, and locks or unlocks itself depending on this prediction. The artwork showcases a possible use of computer vision, making explicit the fact that every technological implantation crystallises a political worldview.

Artificial intelligence (AI) can have a positive impact on the exercise of certain rights, but others can be undermined by its use such as: freedom of expression (including the right to freely communicate or receive information), privacy, the prohibition of discrimination, and the right to effective judicial protection. International organizations dedicated to the protection of human rights are currently reflecting on these risks and possible solutions to help their member states respond to these challenges, as well as the actions carried out in the universal framework by the United Nations and at the European level by the Council of Europe and the European Union. Artificial Intelligence is an extremely powerful and necessary tool to help us address the immense challenges we must overcome as a species. But if when developing it we ignore social, labor and ethical factors, Artificial Intelligence can become a weapon in favor of inequality, control and destruction. ; La inteligencia artificial (IA) puede tener un impacto positivo en el ejercicio de determinados derechos, pero otros pueden verse menoscabados por su uso como: la libertad de expresión (incluyendo el derecho a comunicar o recibir información libremente), la privacidad, la prohibición de la discriminación, y el derecho a la tutela judicial efectiva. Las organizaciones internacionales dedicadas a la protección de los derechos humanos están actualmente reflexionando sobre estos riesgos y las posibles soluciones para ayudar a sus Estados miembros a responder a estos retos, así se presentan las acciones llevadas a cabo en el marco universal por las Naciones Unidas y en el ámbito europeo por el Consejo de Europa y la Unión Europea. La Inteligencia Artificial es una herramienta sumamente poderosa y necesaria para ayudarnos a abordar los inmensos retos que debemos superar como especie. Pero si a la hora de desarrollarla pasamos por alto los factores sociales, laborales y éticos, la Inteligencia Artificial puede convertirse en arma a favor de la desigualdad, ...

Born on the pages of science fiction comics in the 1920s and 30s, the cyborg lives in popular imagination. As hero of the cyberpunk epic, in its brief but intense history, the cyborg has followed and anticipated the rapport and conflict between man and machine. In the post-fordist era of digital networked media the cyborg unfolds itself in the dissemination of multiple bodies: on the Internet, in the shift of individual identity, in the new collective aggregation connected by software. It bridges virtuality and concreteness, possibility and necessity. The cyborg thus becomes a field of social conflict, one of the new figures in which the bio-political perspective is embodied.

This book is a platform for anyone who wishes to explore Artificial Intelligence in the field of agriculture from scratch or broaden their understanding and its uses. This book offers a practical, hands-on exploration of Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, deep Learning, computer vision and Expert system with proper examples to understand. This book also covers the basics of python with example so that any anyone can easily understand and utilize artificial intelligence in agriculture field. This book is divided into two parts wherein first part talks about the artificial intelligence and its impact in the agriculture with all its branches and their basics. The second part of the book is purely implementation of algorithms and use of different libraries of machine learning, deep learning and computer vision to build useful and sightful projects in real time which can be very useful for you to have better understanding of artificial intelligence. After reading this book, the reader will an understanding of what Artificial Intelligence is, where it is applicable, and what are its different branches, which can be useful in different scenarios. The reader will be familiar with the standard workflow for approaching and solving machine-learning problems, and how to address commonly encountered issues. The reader will be able to use Artificial Intelligence to tackle real-world problems ranging from crop health prediction to field surveillance analytics, classification to recognition of species of plants etc.Note: T&F does not sell or distribute the hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. This title is co-published with NIPA