MIT AI Risk Repository · Risk Sub-Category · 62.39.01
High energy consumption of large models
Category: Impacts of AI (Environment)
Description
"Training and deploying large models require substantial energy expenditure. The trend toward developing larger models exacerbates this issue. This can lead to excessive energy usage and have a negative environmental impact."
From Risk Sources and Risk Management Measures in Support of Standards for General-Purpose AI Systems (Gipiškis2024), as extracted by the MIT AI Risk Repository (CC BY 4.0).
Classification
- Subdomain
- 6.6 Environmental harm
- Causal entity
- Other
- Intent
- Other
- Timing
- Other
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.