The Sustainability of AI and AI for Sustainability: Confronting the Paradox of Responsible Innovation
Journal: Journal of Responsible Innovation
Overview Artificial intelligence is often described as immaterial: software, algorithms, models, data. In reality, today’s most powerful AI systems run on electricity, water, land, and minerals at planetary scale. The models that write emails, predict storms, and optimize supply chains now draw as much power as small cities—and sometimes more. The International Energy Agency estimates that global data-center electri…