Download This PaperArtificial Intelligence and the Climate Emergency: Opportunities, Challenges, and Recommendations
4 Pages Posted: 8 Jul 2021
Date Written: June 08, 2021
Abstract
Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to play an important role in addressing the climate emergency, but this potential must be set against the environmental costs of developing AI systems. In this commentary, we assess the carbon footprint of AI training processes and offer 14 policy recommendations to reduce it.
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Climate, Environment, Carbon footprint, Policy
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Taddeo, Mariarosaria and Tsamados, Andreas and Cowls, Josh and Floridi, Luciano, Artificial Intelligence and the Climate Emergency: Opportunities, Challenges, and Recommendations (June 08, 2021). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3873881 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3873881
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