'Green AI,' Technofeminism, and Environmental Justice
Rachel Bergmann
Society for Social Studies of Science (4S)
9 October 2021
In collaboration with Sonja Solomun
AI NOW, A New AI Lexicon essay series:
https://medium.com/a-new-ai-lexicon


Schwartz, Roy, Jesse Dodge, Noah A Smith, and Oren Etzioni. “Green AI.” Communications of the ACM 63, no. 12 (December 2020): 54–63.



AI for "climate control"

source: https://www.bcg.com/publications/2021/ai-to-reduce-carbon-emissions
1. Sustainability and Green AI
2. From Sustainability to EJ
3. Within and Beyond FAccT
Roadmap
Sustainability and Green AI

AI and U.N. Sustainable Development Goals

Vinuesa et al. “The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.” Nature Communications 11, no. 1 (January 13, 2020): 233. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-14108-y.
From Sustainability to Environmental Justice
Ecologically informed intersectionality
Through a “careful and determined attention to silences and illegibilities formed by oppressive beliefs, practices, and institutions [...] we can begin to understand not only how the lineages of oppressions between differences such as sex, class, sexuality, and race can be intermeshed, but can also animate attention to the infusing of such lineages with environmental exploitation” (Tuana 2019:3).
Environmental Justice in the US

https://www.nrdc.org/stories/history-environmental-justice-five-minutes
Environmental Justice in the US



Alternative Relations: Incorporating Environmental Justice

With and Beyond FAccT Discourse
Thank you!
Rachel Bergmann
Twitter: @rachbgm
rachelbergmann@gmail.com
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