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AI: What are the downsides for the environment?

Neil King, Natalie MullerApril 6, 2023

Artificial intelligence has tremendous potential to help us reduce our greenhouse gas emissions. At the same time, the technology itself has a big carbon footprint, and in some cases it's being used to accelerate activities that make climate change worse.

https://p.dw.com/p/4Plvm

Interviewees featured in this episode:

Benedetta Breviniassociate professor of political economy of communication at the University of Sydney, author of "Is AI Good for the Planet?"

Anne Mollen, research associate at the NGO Algorithmwatch, Berlin

David Rolnick, assistant professor at the School of Computer Science at McGill University, Canada, and at the Mila – Quebec AI Institute

Xueying Wu, campaigner with Greenpeace East Asia, Beijing