Unraveling the Hidden Environmental Impacts of AI Solutions for Environment
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| author | Ligozat, Anne-Laure Lefèvre, Julien Bugeau, Aurélie Combaz, Jacques |
| author_facet | Ligozat, Anne-Laure Lefèvre, Julien Bugeau, Aurélie Combaz, Jacques |
| contents | In the past ten years, artificial intelligence has encountered such dramatic progress that it is now seen as a tool of choice to solve environmental issues and in the first place greenhouse gas emissions (GHG). At the same time the deep learning community began to realize that training models with more and more parameters requires a lot of energy and as a consequence GHG emissions. To our knowledge, questioning the complete net environmental impacts of AI solutions for the environment (AI for Green), and not only GHG, has never been addressed directly. In this article, we propose to study the possible negative impacts of AI for Green. First, we review the different types of AI impacts, then we present the different methodologies used to assess those impacts, and show how to apply life cycle assessment to AI services. Finally, we discuss how to assess the environmental usefulness of a general AI service, and point out the limitations of existing work in AI for Green. |
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| spellingShingle | Unraveling the Hidden Environmental Impacts of AI Solutions for Environment Ligozat, Anne-Laure Lefèvre, Julien Bugeau, Aurélie Combaz, Jacques Artificial Intelligence Computers and Society In the past ten years, artificial intelligence has encountered such dramatic progress that it is now seen as a tool of choice to solve environmental issues and in the first place greenhouse gas emissions (GHG). At the same time the deep learning community began to realize that training models with more and more parameters requires a lot of energy and as a consequence GHG emissions. To our knowledge, questioning the complete net environmental impacts of AI solutions for the environment (AI for Green), and not only GHG, has never been addressed directly. In this article, we propose to study the possible negative impacts of AI for Green. First, we review the different types of AI impacts, then we present the different methodologies used to assess those impacts, and show how to apply life cycle assessment to AI services. Finally, we discuss how to assess the environmental usefulness of a general AI service, and point out the limitations of existing work in AI for Green. |
| title | Unraveling the Hidden Environmental Impacts of AI Solutions for Environment |
| topic | Artificial Intelligence Computers and Society |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.11822 |