'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).