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[ELEN] 2026-01-06 (09:00) : Environmental Net Impact of AI - Reviewing Challenges for Decision Making

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Speaker : Daniel Schien (University of Bristol)
Abstract : The net environmental impact of digital services, and artificial intelligence (AI) services in particular, is of increasing interest to society and governance of this part of the economy. The practice of weighing of both positive and negative consequences to arrive at a net impact of digital services has been around for many years and attracted controversy. Efforts such as methodology development through the EU Green Digital Coalition demonstrate ongoing interest as well as the fundamental challenges with this practice. Following a recent pre-print article, I will review existing net-impact methodologies along with the general epistemological challenges and illustrate them through a case study of estimating the benefits from substituting human translation work through LLMs.

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