substantive quantity of waste; waste is also created during AI's transportation and disposal, which exacerbates pollution on an international scale. AI assists oil and gas companies to become more "efficient" where the extraction of fossil fuels is concerned. Brevini also explores Shoshana Zuboff’s notion of "surveillance capitalism", or the process by which personal data is collected and commodified by global corporations. Brevini states that the surveillance capitalism perpetuated by AI-equipped devices has heightened uberconsumerism and a mode of hyperconsumption that precipitates unsustainable energy demands. Is AI Good for the Planet? was named ‘the best science book of the week’ by the English multidisciplinary science journal Nature. Selected bibliography Brevini, B. (2021) Is AI good for the planet? (Cambridge: Polity Press) Brevini, B and Swiatek, L. (2020) Amazon: Understanding a Global Communication Giant (New York: Routledge). Brevini, B. and Lewis. (eds) (2018) Climate Change and the Media (New York: Peter Lang). Brevini, B., Murdock, G. (eds) (2017) Carbon Capitalism and Communication: Confronting Climate Crisis )New York and London: Palgrave Macmillan). Brevini, B. (2013). Public Service Broadcasting Online: A Comparative European Policy Study of PSB 2.0. (Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan). Brevini, B., Hintz, A., McCurdy, P. (eds) (2013). Beyond WikiLeaks: Implications for the Future of Communications, Journalism and Society (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan). See also Artificial intelligence Climate crisis Data capitalism David Graeber Media reform Political economy Public Service broadcasting Shoshana Zuboff Surveillance capitalism References Living people 1977 births Italian academics Italian women academics Political economists Communication theorists University of Sydney faculty University of Modena alumni 21st-century Italian women writers 21st-century Italian non-fiction writers 21st-century women writers