Vocabulary
Concepts
Concept
Epistemic Weaponization
The strategic manipulation of what societies know, doubt, trust, or ignore — treated as an instrument rather than a side-effect.
AI · Society · Governance
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Algorithmic Surrender
The routine, often unconscious transfer of judgment to automated systems whose criteria are opaque to the person deferring.
AI · Society · Ethics
Concept
Efficiency Debt
The hidden liabilities — resource, cognitive, institutional — that accumulate when efficiency gains are booked without accounting for what they externalize.
Sustainability · AI · Systems Thinking
Concept
The AI–Sustainability Paradox
The same technology that promises to accelerate sustainability transitions is also, at aggregate scale, one of their fastest-growing structural obstacles.
AI · Sustainability · Governance · Systems Thinking
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Jevons Paradox
When a technology that uses a resource becomes more efficient, total consumption of that resource rises rather than falls.
Sustainability · AI · Energy · Systems Thinking
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Rebound Effect
Every unit of efficiency saving is refilled by new demand and new capacity, rather than banked as reduction.
Sustainability · AI · Systems Thinking
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Decoupling Thesis
The claim that economic growth can be separated from resource consumption — coherent in theory, unstable at exponential scale.
Sustainability · Climate · Systems Thinking · Governance
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Washing Economy
A system in which virtue becomes a marketing budget — discourse, not action, generates revenue.
Sustainability · Governance · Society
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Loneliness Economy
The market in which the inability to connect becomes a service category.
AI · Society · Ethics
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Attention Mining
An industry in which human attention is extracted and depleted like a natural resource.
AI · Society · Ethics
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Commitment Debt
Today's sustainability pledges piling into a stock of obligations for the future, whose enforcement remains uncertain.
Climate · Sustainability · Governance
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