- Led by Professor Samantha Walton, Bath Spa University.
- Project webpage: susaifutures.com
This demonstrator (full title: Exploring sustainability and environmental resilience: Sustainable AI Futures) interrogates how we can govern AI’s environmental impacts responsibly and addresses this challenge by looking at different aspects of governance tools.
This project will develop tools to support responsible AI in relation to climate and environment and investigate the social life of environmental governance tools including:
- how they work
- how they are made
- how to improve them
- their potential for unintended consequences
- their wider political, social, and ethical implications
Sustainable AI futures addresses this challenge by analysing AI environmental governance at three interconnected scales: policy and strategy, code and data, and material infrastructure.
At each level, the project will develop a toolkit to address gaps in the governance of AI’s environmental impacts.
Ultimately, Sustainable AI futures is creating tools for responsible AI that address both the environmental impacts of AI itself, and the use of AI to support sustainability.
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