Ai And The Environment: What Are The Pitfalls?

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a rapidly growing field, with the global AI market currently valued at $142.3 billion and expected to grow to nearly $2 trillion by 2030. AI systems are already being used to help governments, industries, and individuals make data-driven decisions, but this technology has a large carbon footprint due to the data crunching required to train AI models. A 2019 paper found that training a common large AI model can emit up to 284,000 kilograms of carbon dioxide equivalent, which is nearly five times the emissions of a car over its lifetime.