AI and Environmental Challenges
Can we ever develop and use AI in an environmentally sustainable way? My conversation with Prof. Philipp Hacker and Boris Gamazaychikov | Edition #308
I recently sat down with Prof. Philipp Hacker from the European University Viadrina Frankfurt and Boris Gamazaychikov from the Sustainable AI Group to discuss emerging environmental challenges in AI and their new paper, “The Global Landscape of Environmental AI Regulation: From the Cost of Reasoning to a Right to Green AI.”
In our 54-minute talk, we covered controversial and misunderstood topics, transparency challenges, recent AI developments and their environmental implications, the impact of the AI Act, self-regulation, and paths to greater sustainability and environmental awareness in AI.
If you are interested in AI’s environmental implications, do not miss our conversation. Watch the full recording here:
Video chapters:
00:00 - Controversial and misunderstood topics
07:06 - Are people aware?
11:02 - The search-AI merge
15:26 - AI transparency challenges
23:40 - Are things getting better?
33:15 - Lack of nuance in the AI debate
35:29 - The AI Act and environmental protection
41:10 - Self-regulation and environmental ambition
46:05 - Shaping the future
52:15 - Final remarks
I am concerned that AI is being rolled out whilst being known to be discriminatory, and also that at scale, the cumulative effect of this is to counteract the SGGs during a climate crisis. It is illegal and accountable yet is not being addressed in those terms. Have u any idea why?