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Environmental Damage
Environmental Damage

AI’s rapid expansion increases pollution, energy use, and electronic waste. While AI can help track climate change, its own footprint is often overlooked and is not made accessible by tech companies.

Bibliography
  • Luccioni AS, Hernandez-Garcia A (2023) Counting carbon: A survey of factors influencing the emissions of machine learning. arXiv:2302.08476v1. Available at: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.08476.pdf
  • Crawford K (2021) Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Autonomous Weapon