MIT AI Risk Repository · Risk Category · 10.09.00
Environmental Impacts
Description
"The production process of these devices requires raw materials such as nickel, cobalt, and lithium in such high quantities that the Earth may soon no longer be able to sustain them in sufficient quantities."
From Social Impacts of Artificial Intelligence and Mitigation Recommendations: An Exploratory Study (Paes2023), as extracted by the MIT AI Risk Repository (CC BY 4.0).
Classification
- Subdomain
- 6.6 Environmental harm
- Causal entity
- Human
- Intent
- Unintentional
- Timing
- Post-deployment
Subdomain definition: The development and operation of AI systems causing environmental harm, such as through energy consumption of data centers, or material and carbon footprints associated with AI hardware.