Within Bounds: Limiting AI’s environmental impact
A joint statement issued by the Green Screen Coalition, the Green Web Foundation, Beyond Fossil Fuels, Aspiration, and the critical infrastructure lab, regarding AI’s impact on climate change:
To meet the challenge of climate change, environmental degradation, pollution and biodiversity loss, and its attendant injustices, we urge policymakers, industry leaders and all stakeholders to acknowledge the true environmental costs of AI, to phase out fossil fuels throughout the technology supply chain, to reject false solutions, and to dedicate all necessary means to bring AI systems in line with planetary boundaries. Meeting these demands is an essential step to ensure that AI is not driving further planetary degradation and could instead support a sustainable and equitable transition.
Their demands are:
- I. PHASE OUT FOSSIL FUELS
- II. COMPUTING WITHIN LIMITS
- III. RESPONSIBLE SUPPLY CHAINS
- IV. EQUITABLE PARTICIPATION
- V. TRANSPARENCY
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