Artificial intelligence in service to life with ecocide law
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With ecocide law, the power of artificial intelligence can be directed to be in service to life. Ecocide means mass destruction of nature. Making ecocide an international crime in the Rome statute, one of the most powerful documents in the world, gives us an umbrella law above existing laws and international agreements. Ecocide law will help us to shift direction from a world that is negative for people and planet to a society that puts the wellbeing of people on planet first. With AI we can get there much more quickly.
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- 1. March 10, 2022 Jonas Roupé
- 2. Drivers for environmental degradation Adapted from UNEP- Interpol (2016) The Rise of Environmental Crime – A Growing Threat To Natural Resources Peace, Development And Security.
- 3. Interventions Improved business conditions for regenerative alternatives The worst criminals can be locked away Make the most wanton and serious practices a international crime Pre-emptive effect prior to decisions and business cases A moral baseline is established; norms shifted Speed up case filing & support prosecution of ecocide Matchmaking between secondary resources and next Re-user Ecocide Law Artificial Intelligence Increase transparency within value chains and speed up resolution of incongruence Fine-tune circular and regenerative practices Identify ongoing ecocide Note: The drivers and the Interventions are not exhaustive, nor mutually exclusive
- 4. ”Nothing is so helpful for creativity as a clear parameter” …improved, fair and predictable business conditions is certainly helpful as well Which is what ecocide law accomplishes
- 5. NPR: Our Supercomputer Overlord Is Now Running A Food Truck IBM AI can accellerate creativity
- 6. Shifting the system Adapted from Donella Medows Sense-making and best practice finding Pre-emptive reflex at source Transparency Visual Intelligence Hard stop Predictive also in dynamic complexity Path dependent and progressive Moral - and social - baseline
- 7. Planet Negative Planet Positive People and democracy Negative People and democracy Positive
- 8. Thank you! The report on AI and EL More resources at www.ecocidelaw.org www.endecocide.se www.stopecocide.earth www.ecocidelawalliance.org www.ecocidelaw.org
Editor's Notes
- When transformative technology meets transformative law, what will happen? In itself, artificial intelligence has no morals: it can be used for both good and bad and is used to get to whatever the objective is more quickly and efficiently. It needs to be directed and the most direct way to do that is through law at the highest level. Ecocide means mass destruction of nature. Making ecocide an international crime in the Rome statute, one of the most powerful documents in the world, gives us an umbrella law above existing laws and international agreements. Ecocide law will help us to put the wellbeing of people and planet first when significant decisions are made, when technology is designed and before it is put to use. With ecocide law, the power of artificial intelligence can be directed to be in service to life.
- To understand the power of the two transformative forces, the drivers environmental degradation is a good starting point. In the report from 2016; “The rise of Iran to the rise of environmental crime, a growing threat to national resources, peace development and security”, UNEP and Interpol identify seven driving factors for environmental degradation or destruction. Firstly, the lack of law enforcement. A major problem is that the laws that do exist are not being enforced, which means that destruction is in fact allowed to continue. In addition to destroying nature, this also creates a competitive disadvantage for all who do follow the laws. This is detrimental for a society’s sense of right and wrong. Secondly, legislation is missing, both nationally and internationally. Ecocide law will fill this gap for the most reckless and severe crimes. Thirdly, increasing demand, both domestic and international, on our natural resources, which is largely due to the very wasteful and destructive ways our societies operate. This lack of legislation enforcement and the ever-increasing demand is making very good opportunities for corruption, resource conflicts, mafias, and corporate crime. And what is more interesting, is of course, how we could intervene to stop this.
- Ecocide law intervenes in several ways. It makes the most severe and the most wanton - that is reckless and disproportional practices of ecocide - an international crime. In addition, ecocide in the Rome Statute reinforces the role of the International Criminal Court as a court of last resort, when for whatever reason, national courts cannot or will not take on the case. As a result, the worst criminals can be locked away, regardless of the capacity in which they operate, enabling Ecocide law to address corporate crime and corruption as well as organized crime. As UNEP and Interpol point out in their report, environmental crime is funding many other areas of criminal activity and terrorism. Ecocide law is thus another tool to counteract organized crime. Ecocide law improves business conditions for regenerative alternatives, making dangerous industrial activity become un-fundable, un-licensable and uninsurable and the regenerative alternatives get a level playing field. This is a powerful way to help societies thrive by stopping or slowing the mindless destruction of natural resources. This will also address a root cause for resource conflicts. Right now, Artificial Intelligence can identify ecocide, as it happens and even before it happens. This speeds up the case file creation or, in other words, shorten Time-To-Justice. This will support and assist law enforcement and counteract corruption, mafia, and corporate crime. Ecocide law is necessary to create conditions for better choices. Artificial intelligence is an active help in finding or identifying that better choice more quickly and more simply in order to fine tune circular and regenerative practices. Artificial Intelligence can also increase transparency in, for instance, value chain, and to find problems so they can be addressed.
- The power of AI to boost creativity is, for instance, illustrated beautifully in its application that assists chefs design novel recipes. This application of AI is relevant for many sectors and one we will see much more of.
- Imagine that you have a boulder that you want to move and you have a crow bar. The further away you apply force and push the crowbar down, the easier it is to move the boulder. This boulder is the global system, that causes destruction of the natural world. The crowbar is where AI and Ecocide law can help shift this system. According to Donella Meadows, a leading systems thinker, 99% of our focus is on parameters, and they have a very small leverage. Every system in nature has feedback built into it. Improving feedback in our human made systems, such as in our global economy has a stronger leverage than parameters or changing structure. With feedback you can achieve adaptive, self-organising organisations and with information that can predict and intervene more intelligently. Changing your intent or even world-view yields the highest leverage. AI helps us to make better sense of complex data and to find the best conclusions and practices when it comes to structures and targets. Ecocide law brings about a pre-emptive reflex at source – that is to say when decisions are made concerning potentially ecocidal activities. It makes decisionmakers think twice before going ahead. AI helps to make processes transparent and can for instance visualise these. This improves our ability to get feedback and to learn. It also enables us to be more trustworthy. Ecocide law provides a hard stop to unlawful or wanton activities. This is necessary as we do not seem to pay enough attention to the destruction that we as a global community are causing. In June 2021, twelve experts in international law published a proposal for how to define ecocide as a crime in the Rome Statute. They suggest that ecocide is defined as a crime already from the point at which there is substantial likelihood that it will happen. The predictive capacity of AI will be helpful to predict, and with ecocide law, safeguard that ecocide does not happen. The same definition of ecocide also includes reckless disregard for damage which would be clearly excessive in relation to the social and economic benefits anticipated. AI will help us to find and adopt better practices faster. Ecocide law will compel us to move away from obsolete and destructive ways whilst respecting that all the practices will need time to be perfect. Artificial intelligence in itself has no moral. It empowers us to get wherever we want to go. Ecocide law does set a moral baseline, even for those that fail to understand. It makes ecocide immoral because it is forbidden. Including Ecocide law in the Rome statute is a powerful statement that the most wanton and destructive environmental crimes are not small crimes. The global community considers ecocide abhorrent. That ecocide is something that can and will be sanctioned. That we – the global community - shall change direction.
- From a world that is negative for people and planet to a society that puts the wellbeing of people on planet first. With AI we can get there much more quickly.
- You can find our report at End Ecocide Sweden, or her