AI & Sustainability
Who Are We?
The AI and Sustainability workgroup scrutinizes the environmental justice dimensions of deploying AI and the long-term sustainability of this technology from the perspective of environmental humanities.
AI is an energy-intensive technology whose training processes and hardware raise serious concerns about the planetary impacts of carbon emissions, natural resource extraction, expansion of computational infrastructure, and electronic waste. By dissecting the environmental and social costs that are inherent but often obscured in AI applications, this workgroup aims to develop a critically informed, ecological discourse around AI that prioritizes sustainability over technocratic governance and unchecked technological growth.