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Digital Technologies for Sustainability - Climate change and AI: A research agenda for sustainableintelligence
Artificial intelligence represents one of the most powerful technologies currently available to humanity, offering immense potential for transformative change. It has the potential to assist us in addressing our most pressing climate change concerns. It can also enhance our ability to promote and lead the transition to sustainability. However, it is also important to acknowledge that AI is a technology that requires significant resources. It is estimated that by 2025–2026, the daily training costs for the large AI models wil exceed the global computing capacity. This chapter presents the latest developments in AI for sustainability transformation and sustainable AI, with a particular focus on reducing resource consumption. It introduces the concept of sustainable intelligence and discusses a research agenda featuring a multidisciplinary, transformative approach to the design and development of AI technologies and AI-based systems, with the objective of ensuring their development in an environmentally friendly and socially responsible manner, and with the aim of investigating their impact on the natural, technical and societal environment.
