"A/IS creators need to recognize and prioritize the stewardship of the Earth’s natural systems to promote human and ecological well-being. Specifically:_ _
Human well-being should be defined to encompass ecological health, access to nature, safe climate and natural environments, biosystem diversity, and other aspects of a healthy, sustainable natural environment.
A/IS systems should be designed to use, support, and strengthen existing ecological sustainability standards with a certification or similar system, e.g., LEED, Energy Star, or Forest Stewardship Council. This directs automation and machine intelligence to follow the principle of doing no harm and to safeguard environmental, social, and economic systems.
A/IS creators should prioritize doing no harm to the Earth’s natural systems, both intended and unintended harm.
A committee should be convened to issue findings on ways in which A/IS can be used by business, NGOs, and governmental agencies to promote stewardship and restoration of natural systems while reducing the harmful impact of economic development on ecological sustainability and environmental justice.
## Further reading
D. Austin and M. Macauley. "Cutting Through Environmental Issues: Technology as a double-edged sword.” The Brookings Institution, Dec. 2001 [Online]. Available: https://www.brookings.edu/articles/cuttingthrough-environmental-issues-technology-asa-double-edged-sword/. [Accessed Dec. 1, 2018].
J. Newton, Well-being and the Natural Environment: An Overview of the Evidence. August 20,
P. Dasgupta, Human Well-Being and the Natural Environment. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press,
R. Haines-Young and M. Potschin. “[The Links ](https://www.pik-potsdam.de/news/public-events/archiv/alter-net/former-ss/2009/
2009/
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pdf)[Between Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services and Human Well-Being,](https://www.pik-potsdam.de/news/public-events/archiv/alter-net/former-ss/2009/
2009/
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pdf)” in Ecosystem Ecology: A New Synthesis, D. Raffaelli, and C. Frid, Eds. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press,
S. Hart, _[Capitalism at the Crossroads: Next Generation Business Strategies for a PostCrisis World.](https://www.pearson.com/us/higher-education/program/Hart-Capitalism-at-the-Crossroads-Next-Generation-Business-Strategies-for-a-Post-Crisis-World-3rd-Edition/PGM
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United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. “[Call for New Technologies to Avoid Ecological Destruction.](http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/news/policy/wess-
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Pope Francis. [Encyclical Letter Laudato Si’ of the Holy Father Francis On the Care for Our Common Home.](http://w
vatican.va/content/francesco/en/encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco20150524enciclica-laudato-si.html) May 24,
“Environment,” The 14th Dalai Lama. Accessed Dec. 9,
https://www.dalailama.com/ messages/environment.- Why Islam.org, Environment and Islam,
_ "p.74-75"_
To avoid potential negative, unintended consequences, and secure and safeguard positive impacts, A/IS creators, end-users, and stakeholders should be aware of possible well-being impacts when designing, using, and monitoring A/IS systems. This includes being aware of existing cases and possible areas of impact, measuring impacts on wellbeing outcomes, and developing regulations to promote beneficent uses of A/IS. Specifically"
A/IS creators should protect human dignity The human right to be valued and treated with respect because of one's personhood. , autonomy, rights, and well-being of those directly and indirectly affected by the technology. As part of this effort, it is important to include multiple stakeholders, minorities, marginalized groups, and those often without power or a voice in consultation.
Policymakers, regulators, monitors, and researchers should consider issuing guidance on areas such as A/IS labor and the proper role of humans vs. A/IS in work transparency, trust, and explainability; manipulation and deception; and other areas that emerge.
Ongoing literature review and analysis should be performed by research and other communities to curate and aggregate information on positive and negative A/IS impacts, along with demonstrated approaches to realize positive ones and amelioratenegative ones.
A/IS creators working toward computational sustainability should integrate well-being concepts, scientific findings, and indicators into current computational sustainability models. They should work with well-being experts, researchers, and practitioners to conduct research and develop and apply models inA/IS development that prioritize and increase human well-being.
Cross-pollination should be developed between computational sustainability and well-being professionals to ensure integration of well-being into computational sustainability frameworks, and vice versa. Where feasible and reasonable, do the same for conceptual models such as doughnut economics and systems thinking.
## Further Resources
AI Safety Research by The Future of Life Institute
D. Helbing, et al. “Will Democracy Survive Big Data and Artificial Intelligence?” Scientific American, February 25,
J. L. Schenker, “Can We Balance Human Ethics with Artificial Intelligence?” Techonomy, _January 23, 2017._
M. Bulman, “[EU to Vote on Declaring Robots To Be ‘Electronic Persons](http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/robots-eu-vote-electronic-persons-european-union-ai-artificial-intelligence-a
html)’.” _Independent, _January 14,
N. Nevejan, for the European Parliament.“European Civil Law Rules in Robotics.” October
University of Oxford. “Social media manipulation rising globally, new report warns,” https://phys.org/news/2018-07social-media-globally.html. July 20,
“The AI That Pretends To Be Human,” _LessWrong _blog post, February 2,
C. Chan, “Monkeys Grieve When Their Robot Friend Dies.” Gizmodo, January 11,
Partnership on AI, “AI, Labor, and theEconomy” Working Group launches in New York City,” https://www.partnershiponai.org/ aile-wg-launch/. April 25,
C.Y. Johnson, “Children can be swayed by robot peer pressure,study says,” The Washington Post, August 15,
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## Further Resources forComputational Sustainability
Stanford Engineering Department, [Topics in Computational Sustainability Course Presentation,](https://cs.stanford.edu/~ermon/cs325/slides/lecture1-S
pdf)
Computational Sustainability, [Computational Sustainability: Computational Methods for a Sustainable Environment, Economy, and Society Project Summary. ](http://computational-sustainability.cis.cornell.edu/FILES/gomes-computational-sustainability-summary-NSF-Exp
pdf)
C. P. Gomes, “Computational Sustainability: Computational Methods for a Sustainable Environment, Economy, and Society” in The Bridge: Linking Engineering and Society."p.83-86