question:  What does Stephen think is the most important impact of trying to be more efficient in using resources?
context: It is bringing together a diverse community of some of the world's best researchers, philosophers, psychologists, lawyers and computer scientists. Harry Armstrong, head of futures at Nesta, which publishes The Long + Short, spoke with Cave about the impact of AI. So if academia is going to rise to the challenge and provide thought leadership on this hugely important issue, then we’re going to need to do it by breaking down current disciplinary boundaries and bringing people with very different expertise together. That means bringing together the technologists and the experts at developing these algorithms together with social scientists, philosophers, legal scholars and so forth. We want to create a space where many different disciplines can come together and develop a shared language, learn from each other’s approaches, and hopefully very quickly move to be able to actually develop new ideas, new conclusions, together. The current dominant political and economic ideologies, along with growing isolationist sentiment, runs contrary to the bipartisan, collaborative approaches needed to solve global issues like climate change. There has been disruption but so far, compared to industrialisation, the impact has been fairly small. And that a broad buy-in by society into some kind of vision of the future in which this technology plays a role is required, if a dangerous – or to them dangerous – counteraction is to be avoided. One of the dominant narratives around not only AI but technology and automation more generally is that we, as humans, are at the mercy of technological progress. There can be a bit of a conflict between being impacted by what's happening and having some sort of control over what we want to happen. And I think the more we understand a technology's relationship with those things, and the more we then consciously try to shape those things, the more we are going to influence the technology. So, for example, developing a culture of responsible innovation. One of the problems with intervention, generally, is that we cannot control the course of events.
output:  The earth has been hurt by previous technological developments and it could be partly counteracted
options:  It is cheaper for any technology to operate if it has to rely on fewer resources  The resources availalbe on the Earth are finite and are running low enough to possibly impede technological progress  The earth has been hurt by previous technological developments and it could be partly counteracted  Having fewer cars on the road would mean a safer environment for most drivers