MIT AI Risk Repository · Risk Sub-Category · 62.39.01
High energy consumption of large models
Category: Impacts of AI (Environment)
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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.