#sustainability (7 results)

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Climate & AI Coalition

Climate protection and technological progress must go hand in hand. Artificial intelligence consumes large amounts of electricity, water, and other resources. However, if developed sustainably and used strategically, it could also be leveraged to protect the climate. With the launch of the Climate & AI Coalition, AlgorithmWatch CH is bringing together stakeholders from the climate and AI sectors to strengthen climate protection in the age of AI.

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The AI Climate Hoax: Behind the Curtain of How Big Tech Greenwashes Impacts

The tech companies driving AI expansion claim that AI will eventually help solve climate change. Our analysis indicates that such claims are not based on credible and verifiable data. On the contrary, the evidence for any significant positive climate impacts from AI is weak, while its substantial climate damage is clearly documented.

Position Paper

Focus Attention on Accountability for AI − not on AGI and Longtermist Abstractions

Many tech CEOs and scientists praise AI as the savior of humanity, while others see it as an existential threat. We explain why both fail to address the real questions of responsibility.

Infrastructure or Intrusion? Europe’s Conflicted Data Center Expansion

Data centers, cornerstones of the EU’s digital ambitions, are expanding rapidly across the continent. Public responses to this digital prioritization vary dramatically. Some communities embrace them as engines of development; others push back, citing threats to the environment and their quality of life.

Position Paper

Which AI do we want? Framework conditions for algorithms & artificial intelligence

The Swiss Federal Council is introducing regulation around AI. Below, we summarize what the Federal Council and Parliament should consider from the perspective of fundamental rights, democracy, and sustainability.

Press release

AI Action Summit: AlgorithmWatch demands sustainable AI

While tech companies portray AI as the solution to the climate crisis and call for more and bigger AI, AI’s energy consumption has reached unprecedented heights. Since the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Summit takes place next week, AlgorithmWatch calls for urgent steps to align AI with planetary boundaries.

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Fighting the Power Deficiency: The AI Energy Crisis

Is AI contributing to solving the climate crisis or to making it worse? Either way, the increase in AI applications goes hand in hand with the need for additional data centers, for which energy resources are currently lacking.