The Hidden Life-Ground of Artificial Intelligence
From Symbolic Power to Life-Coherent GovernanceBy Dr. Bichara Sahely
Length1h 49m
About this audiobook
The Hidden Life-Ground of Artificial Intelligence reveals that AI is not weightless, immaterial, or merely digital. Every prompt, image, prediction, and video depends on a hidden life-ground of electricity, water, land, minerals, labor, communities, ecosystems, and waste sinks. Building from the UNU-INWEH report on AI’s carbon, water, and land footprints, Dr. Bichara Sahely extends the analysis through a life-coherence framework. The central question is whether AI expands life-capacity within ecological limits, or converts life-support into symbolic excess, dependency, and enclosure. This audiobook explores AI as tool, oracle, idol, enclosure, or commons, and offers a practical governance pathway for responsible, proportionate, life-serving intelligence.
Audiobook details
GenreTechnology, Politics and Government
Length1 hr 49 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 8, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1
8Chapter 6. The Political Economy of AI Demand
2Listener’s Opening Note
9Chapter 7. AI as Tool, Oracle, Idol, Enclosure, or Commons
3Chapter 1. AI Is Not Immaterial
10Chapter 8. A Life-Coherent Governance Framework for AI
4Chapter 2. The United Nations University Report as Empirical Foundation
11Chapter 9. Caribbean and Small Island Implications
5Chapter 3. The Hidden Metabolism of AI
12Chapter 10. The Life-Coherent AI Use Protocol
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6Chapter 4. Training, Inference, and Symbolic Escalation
13Chapter 11. From Symbolic Power to Responsible Intelligence
7Chapter 5. Local Costs, Distant Benefits
14Listener’s Closing Reflection
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