IL POTERE COLLETTIVO DEI DATI DIGITALI.

This article examines the evolution and implications of Artificial Intelligence - henceforth AI - in terms of social, environmental, and institutional sustainability, beginning with the first financial investment in 1956 for a Dartmouth conference, which is recognized as the formal birth of AI. It discusses the environmental issues associated with rare earth mining and the energy and water resources required by AI. The article criticizes the centralization of the power of AI in the hands of a few global entities, suggesting instead that we consider personal data as collective property, a new collective power, for an equitable distribution of both the social and environmental benefits of AI. Finally, it proposes the creation of new forms of power in government and intermediary organizations for managing personal digital data as a collective good. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]