About 50 members of a community outside Chile’s capital spent Saturday trying their best to power an entirely human-operated ...

Artificial intelligence has a growing environmental footprint. Explore how AI affects energy use, water demand, emissions, and sustainability solutions.

Artificial intelligence systems have big environmental costs but are also finding ways to save energy and water, cut ...

The idea of an AI footprint is like a carbon footprint, a way to calculate the environmental costs of certain actions.

As artificial intelligence continues to transform daily life and work, concerns are mounting over its effect on the environment. The Government Accountability Office reported that data centers, which ...

From job displacement and plagiarism to questions about accuracy and privacy risks, generative artificial intelligence — or genAI — is fraught the kinds of issues you’d expect from such disruptive ...

While artificial intelligence (AI) may solve certain sustainability issues in the future, the technology’s environmental footprint is already a topic of much discussion today. To help society bridge ...

This workshop will bring together experts data science, toxicology, environmental epidemiology, and public policy to explore emerging applications and evidence on the use of artificial intelligence ...

As operational footprints grow larger and regulatory expectations increase, traditional fire watch methods face measurable ...

About 50 members of a community outside Chile’s capital spent Saturday trying their best to power an entirely human-operated chatbot that could answer questions and make silly pictures on command, ...

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