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Becky Clissmann
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The Environmental Impact of AI Pathway
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About The Environmental Impact of AI Pathway
6 Learning modules
27 minutes of learning
4.5 rating
Foundational level
This pathway explores the escalating environmental challenges posed by the rapid growth of AI technology, focusing on energy consumption, resource use, and sustainability issues. Guided by expert Boris Gamazaychikov, you will learn the complex factors that influence AI’s environmental footprint and the differing impacts on various stakeholders. The pathway explores energy use estimation, sustainable AI practices, and the ongoing debate on AI's ecological effects.
In this pathway
Understand AI as an environmental issue
Outline how much energy AI uses
Explain the relationship between AI and water use
Understand the polarisation around AI's environmental footprint
Outline what better AI would look like
Pathway experts
Boris Gamazaychikov
CEO of Sustainable AI Group
Boris Gamazaychikov is an AI Sustainability Leader and environmental engineer by training, focused on aligning AI development with climate action. He is the Co-Founder and CEO of Sustainable AI Group, a research and advisory firm helping enterprises understand and act on the environmental impacts of AI. Previously, he served as Head of AI Sustainability at Salesforce, where he built the company's AI sustainability strategy from the ground up and co-created the AI Energy Score - the first standardised benchmark for measuring AI model energy use.