Seminar Details
2026-02-19 (13:00) : Why AI is eating the planet.
At BARB94
Organized by Computer Science and Engineering
Speaker :
Romain Rouvoy (Full Professor within the Faculty of Science and Technology at the University of Lille and the head of the Computer Science department)
Abstract :
This presentation aims to raise awareness of the environmental costs of our personal and professional activities, which are increasingly assisted by AI agents. In particular, throughout this presentation, we aim to provide greater transparency into the conditions under which these tools are deployed, enabling a more accurate estimate of the consumption attributable to their use. To guide this approach, we study the production of a line of source code as a functional unit, enabling us to approximate the cost of an AI assistant's impact across the many infrastructure layers involved in its usage phase.