#AI #Environment #GreenAI: "Even discussions specifically devoted to ethical concerns related to AI (highlighting issues like bias, privacy violations, indiscriminate scraping to build training data sets, etc.) often fail to include environmental issues. When the White House announced last month that seven of the key companies developing AI had agreed to a list of voluntary commitments focused on protecting Americans’ “rights and safety,” the announcement said nothing about sustainability.
It did, however, mention “transparent development of AI technology,” as well as “broader societal effects.” Perhaps within those general terms we can locate some additional commitments to be required beyond those spelled out in the initial fact sheet: that the companies commit to disclosing the energy and water consumption involved in the development and deployment of their products, that they commit to educating the broader public and their direct clients about the environmental costs and that they commit to large investments in research focused on what some are calling “green AI,” which stresses energy efficiency as one of the criteria in evaluating models."
https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/ai-chatgpt-climate-environment-18282910.phpAn
Miguel Afonso Caetano /
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