Sustainable AI Futures

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"Still to this day, everything can be traced back to that one skit." www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiPo...

YouTube video by SHL - Sussex Digital Humanities Lab Sustainable AI Futures Conversations with Fieke Jansen 20260212

In 2022 there was a moratorium on hyperscalers in the Netherlands. Is the ban working? For @braiduk.bsky.social Sustainable AI Futures, Iliana Depounti in conversation with Fieke Jansen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTQu... #susaifutures #datacentres #datacenters #sustainability #climate #AI

Modelling diverse futures for AI and the Climate We are pleased to share this preprint from the research project Sustainable AI Futures:

Modelling Diverse Futures for #Climate and #AI medium.com/@jolindsaywa... Part of our @braiduk.bsky.social research project

Will AI save the planet? Why the evidence is flawed Published: December 17, 2024 4.29am AEDT Author Jo Lindsay Walton Principal Research Fellow in Arts, Climate and Technology, University of Sussex Disclosure statement Jo Lindsay Walton has received funding from Innovate UK and the Arts and Humanities Research Council for research relating to this article. Partners University of Sussex University of Sussex provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. View all partners DOI https://doi.org/10.64628/AB.up77c9pwh Share article Print article Optimistic advocates for AI say this environmentally costly technology will become more sustainable with time. We can use AI more efficiently, and explore less energy-intensive designs inspired by the human brain. We can build data centres more sustainably, using wood or low-carbon concrete and steel. The heat from the data centres can warm homes in the local area. Of course, if we start using AI systems too widely (including where we don’t really need them), the growth might outweigh any of these potential gains in efficiency. But recently, I’ve been hearing another argument: that AI itself is tackling climate change. AI can help to model wildfires, optimise energy consumption to stabilise the grid, accelerate the development of low-carbon materials, and much more.

Similarly: others like @jowalton.bsky.social have noticed the evidence underpinning 'AI for climate' claims can be oddly weak, regardless of what type of AI is being used - eg, this article that ended up being retracted for using misleading references

theconversation.com/will-ai-save...

OKAY BIG ONE FOR YA

NEW report out today: I dig deep into how big tech has been muddling tech types and overstating evidence to claim "AI" will make global emissions drop like a stone....

Not only will it not, it seems to be verifiably doing the opposite!!

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Modelling the Future of AI Is Nature wrong about the carbon impact of AI?

"It doesn’t especially matter how the carbon impact of AI relates to the carbon impact of buying a hamburger or watching some television

It matters how it relates to the amount of carbon in the atmosphere, and our options for getting to net zero rapidly, safely, and justly"

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This is a little dated now ('things move so fast" etc.) but you'll probably still find some things there you won't see anywhere else. It's a bit of a prequel to our current project Sustainable AI Futures. (Special thanks to Greenpixie and Innovate UK).

Stories - The Bennett Institute Summary of new report examining current AI cloud and climate change issues

Check out The Cloud and the Climate: Navigating Our AI-Powered Futures bennettinstitutesussex.org/stories/navi...

Vector ‘Futures’: Torque Control Apply Science Fiction Here Jo Lindsay Walton and Polina Levontin Every issue of Vector is special, but this one is especially special. It is guest-edited by science fiction author Stephen Oram, and…

We love this haunting tale, and we'd love to know your reactions to it as well. Special thanks to Applied African SF for hosting. For a little context on applied speculative fiction, check out this earlier piece by @jolwalton.bsky.social vector-bsfa.com/2023/04/05/v...

Our BRAID project Sustainable AI Futures does a lot of things. One is to use speculative fiction to explore the future of AI. It is a delight to introduce our first short story, 'Every Centre is an Ant' by Robyn Perros: appliedafricansf.com/toolkit-stor... @braiduk.bsky.social

And Felix Loftus completes our line up of artists-in-residence for the BRAID Sustainable AI Futures project! Find out more about artists and their work here: susaifutures.com/tag/mini-res... #susAIfutures @braiduk.bsky.social

Since there seems to be, for some reason, a new influx of Bluesky users (welcome!)...

If you're interested in data and AI, you might like to follow members of the Data and AI Civil Society Network set up by @connectedbydata.org

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Over the moon to announce Jazmin Morris and Shruthi Venkat as our new artists-in-residence: susaifutures.com/artists-in-r... #susAIfutures @braiduk.bsky.social

AI and the sun and the wind A recent article in The Guardian explores the environmental impacts of AI. It is really hard to turn messy, uncertain, and contenious…

What impacts might AI have on the future of solar and wind energy? And what lessons can we draw for how we are modeling and governing AI's climate impacts? medium.com/@jolindsaywa... @braiduk.bsky.social #sustainableAI #AIforSustainability

Don't expect too much from the gameplay! But feedback very welcome on the content, #digitalsustainability #responsibleAI and #greentech folks. franciscrot.github.io/Digital-Sust...

Check out the janky first prototype of our Digital Sustainability Game (in collaboration with the Digital Humanities Climate Coalition): franciscrot.github.io/Digital-Sust...

The brilliant Yasmine Boudiaf is joining Sustainable AI Futures as our first artist-in-residence: susaifutures.com/artist-in-re...

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Thanks for the question - this particular event most likely will be in-person only and closed, but there will be plenty of other things you can access online. You can join the mailing list here if you'd like to hear about them: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Research Associate in AI and the Environment (Fixed term) Job Opening: Research Associate in AI and the Environment (Fixed term) at Bath Spa University in Bath, Somerset - Newton Park.

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The Responsible AI Ecosystem: Seven Lessons from the BRAID Landscape Study

Published today: The Responsible AI Ecosystem: A BRAID Landscape Study.
@ftollon.bsky.social & @shannonvallor.bsky.social introduce us to the report in the latest BRAID blog braiduk.org/the-responsi...

#CfP: The Politics of AI - Governance, Resistance, Alternatives. Abstracts due 11 July, symposium taking place in September in London. Part of the @BRAIDUK project Sustainable AI Futures. lnkd.in/d22s_xtz #AI

Muffy Calder making the case for taxonomy. The term AI being far too broad to enable the kinds of meaningful dialogues that are now needed.

Sustainable AI Futures We’re thrilled to announce the launch of Sustainable AI Futures, a landmark three-year research project commencing in February 2025, funded by the AHRC Bridging Responsible AI Divides (BRAID) progr…

How do we build Sustainable AI Futures? Find out about our project, and maybe get involved: sussexhumanitieslab.wordpress.com/2025/02/01/s...

Sustainable AI Futures Sustainable AI Futures is an interdisciplinary project exploring the social life of AI environmental governance tools. That means we're interested in how to develop laws, guidelines, and tools that al...

Do you work on Responsible AI, AI Ethics, AI Safety, Critical AI Studies, or just plain #AI? Are you interested in #sustainability, #climate, nature, ESG, sustainable development, and/or pluriversal politics? Sustainable AI Futures would love to connect with you: forms.gle/XmQjuW5b7rM8...

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