Today, Hannah Rozear and I will share the AI Ethics Learning Toolkit with faculty at Duke University Nicholas School of the Environment. Our workshop will center the question "Is AI Sustainable?" and we'll explore a section of the toolkit with conversation starters, learning activities, and resources related to AI, sustainability, and environmental impacts. As we note in this section of the AI Ethics Learning Toolkit, "Instructors may encourage students to be mindful of the environmental impact of AI as they explore its applications and reflect on the balance between convenience and sustainability." One way to encourage student reflection is through conversation and, today, faculty in our workshop will engage with questions we suggest students should discuss: 🌱 In what ways do you think AI technologies impact the environment, both positively and negatively? 🗣️ Who should be responsible for making AI environmentally sustainable? Why? 🪴 Can AI be made more eco-friendly? How? 🌏 Have you seen/heard about examples of AI being used to help the environment? We'll also have our faculty partners review some of the resources and research currently included in the toolkit, such as: 🟠 "The Environmental Impacts of AI -- Primer" by Dr. Sasha Luccioni and colleagues: https://lnkd.in/gcngznNC 🔴 The Scientific American article "What Do Google’s AI Answers Cost the Environment?" by Allison Parshall: https://lnkd.in/gcuU4yww 🟡 The open library "Against AI and Its Environmental Harms" curated by Charles Logan: https://lnkd.in/gYjwMjT5 🟢 The "Cartography of generative AI" map created by the Estampa collective: https://lnkd.in/gQpNpvRU And we recently updated this section of our toolkit to include: 🔵 Hugging Face's EcoLogits Calculator, "a python library that tracks the energy consumption and environmental footprint of using generative AI models through APIs" available at: https://lnkd.in/gFFk_gtW 🟣 The recent technical paper "Measuring the environmental impact of delivering AI at Google Scale" by Cooper Elsworth and colleagues: https://lnkd.in/gUdmWuZM Since the semester began, Hannah and I have been sharing the AI Ethics Learning Toolkit with various departments, groups of faculty, and other constituencies at Duke, and we're very keen to connect with both our Duke colleagues and other academic communities. If you'd like to get involved or contact us, please visit: https://lnkd.in/gN4rEBeR Finally, a reminder that Duke's AI Ethics Learning Toolkit is publicly available here (link also in comments): https://lnkd.in/gkc4ansf Duke Learning Innovation & Lifetime Education Duke University Libraries Duke Climate Commitment #Sustainability #Environment #AIeducation #AI #HigherEd