Golestan Radwan and Panagiotis Moutis Discuss AI, The Environment and The Sustainability Paradox
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Golestan Radwan and Panagiotis Moutis discuss the environmental sustainability paradox of AI and its implications for humanitarian efforts.
Voices is a new mini-series from Humanitarian AI Today. In short daily flashpods, we pass the mic to guests to tell us about new projects, events and advances in artificial intelligence and to discuss topics that are important to the humanitarian community. In this flashpod, Golestan (Sally) Radwan, Chief Digital Officer with the United Nations Environment Program and a Board Member of the Allen Turing Institute speaks with Panagiotis Moutis, Assistant Professor at the City College of New York and a member of the Climate Change AI initiative about AI’s environmental “sustainability paradox” with Humanitarian AI Today Producer, Brent Phillips. Balancing technology’s potential to solve complex environmental problems against AI’s ecological costs, high energy consumption, water usage and e-waste, Sally and Panos emphasize that AI is not a magic solution but a complex equation where the new tools that we’ll use to save the environment are themselves taxing its resources, and suggest that AI’s value must be weighed against costs and resources that the technology draws away from other humanitarian and environmental needs. The participants explore the potential of on-device machine…
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