A good phrase, “environmental prosperity”, is the one used by UNESCO in its “Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence” (https://es.unesco.org/fieldoffice/montevideo/EticaInteligenciaArtificial), approved by the General Conference on November 23, 2021. , to invoke the requirement that artificial intelligence (AI) users must care for ecosystems as they are recognized as essential to the existence of humanity and other living beings.

In this valuable document, a must read and study, the great dangers facing humanity due to the possible and inappropriate use of artificial intelligence, as well as the vast possibilities of its beneficial use, are assumed to be real. The extraordinary capacity of artificial intelligence systems to handle data, connect them and obtain results regarding, for example, environmental situations, allows in this case the monitoring of any natural space, composed of a multitude of creatures, in order to take care of biodiversity and develop best conservation practices; to optimize the consumption of vital resources such as water and energy, reducing their misuse and directing it towards increasingly refined sustainability practices; detect the risk of natural disasters; or, to contribute to decontamination processes, but also to initiatives that want to avoid it.

All human activities, from the simplest to the most complex, can be improved in their beneficial impact by the use of artificial intelligence systems, which are complicated processes that collect data, connect them and propose results through a synthesis produced in an immediate way. In my personal experience with some of the possibilities of artificial intelligence, I felt the speed of analysis and the relevance of the answers. It is like a collection of many mathematical formulas that work simultaneously, focus on a question, and provide answers or approaches that greatly contribute to research and knowledge.

(…) great dangers are assumed to be real… due to the possible and inappropriate use of artificial intelligence…

Obviously, individuals who interact with artificial intelligence must know the subject they are interacting with in order to be able to recognize the relevance of the results, from verifying their credibility, which can only be done by the user and from what he knows. Without this requirement, the conclusions of the artificial intelligence system take on autonomy, conditioning human decisions with the ever-probable inaccuracy in the treatment of data, and thus the error of the answer.

It also requires a clear conscience and a search for the good, which must be part of the character of the users of these systems, which only so far meet the demands of those who use them. Once again, moral education that makes it possible to understand insecurity and the need to respect the dignity of life is the basic foundation in man’s relationship to the cold sophistication of his technological creation. (OR)