AI And Sustainability: Measuring The Impact Of The Generative AI Boom
Before 2022, Alex Hanna worked on Google’s Ethical AI team. Today, she’s the director of research at the Distributed AI Research Institute, a transition sparked by Google’s handling of a paper exposing AI’s growing environmental footprint. So, how bad is it, really? That depends on who you ask. Take Jesse Dodge, a senior research analyst at the Allen Institute for AI. Jesse told NPR that a single ChatGPT query can use as much electricity as keeping a light bulb on for 20 minutes.