MIT AI Risk Repository · Risk Category · 39.02.00
Energy Consumption
Description
Some learning algorithms, including deep learning, utilize iterative learning processes [23]. This approach results in high energy consumption.
From A Survey of Artificial Intelligence Challenges: Analyzing the Definitions, Relationships, and Evolutions (Saghiri2022), as extracted by the MIT AI Risk Repository (CC BY 4.0).
Classification
- Subdomain
- 6.6 Environmental harm
- Causal entity
- AI
- Intent
- Unintentional
- Timing
- Pre-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.