CEI Sustainable AI workshop: How do we assess the environmental impact of AI at University?

We invite you to join our short workshop exploring how we can understand and reduce our environmental impact of artificial intelligence (AI) at the University. As a part of the University’s commitment to taking meaningful action on the climate emergency crisis, it is important to consider the sustainability of our growing use of artificial intelligence. AI impact goes beyond the energy consumption - it also includes water usage, material resources, and wider impacts of data creation, model training and the use of cloud-based systems. These issues span the use of large language models, simulation-based research, high performance computing – but also our everyday teaching and academic workflows (and even a simple search in Google!).  

In this workshop, we will discuss how and where AI contributes to environmental impact at the University and explore potential avenues towards more accountable and sustainable AI practices. This workshop is a part of the Research Sessions at the Computer Science Department with lunch sponsored by the Centre for Environmental Intelligence & the Environmental Intelligence CDT. 

The agenda will include a few short presentations about ongoing work in this area. If you would like to give a presentation, please contact Dr May Rodriguez (E-mail: m.rodriguez3@exeter.ac.u.uk) 

Places are limited by room capacity. To sign up for the event, please use this link: Sustainable AI Workshop: How do we assess the environmental impact of AI at University? – Fill in form