ETUG Fall 2024 Workshop: Navigating Ethics and EdTech – November 1, 2024Emily Simpson | Climate Conscious AI Use: Wrestling with Environmental Impacts
This workshop provides a space to pause and reflect on one of the ethical concerns of generative AI: the environmental impacts and sustainability of these tools. What, as individual users, can we do if anything? What can we do as institutions? We will briefly review the environmental costs of training and using generative AI tools, as well as how these tools might be used to positively reduce climate impacts on a large scale. We will then explore a decision-making framework for AI use with sustainability in mind. Using the guiding questions, you will begin developing a living philosophy for your own mindful AI use that aligns with your environmental values. We will also share 5 practical tips to minimize your carbon/water usage with AI.Learning Objectives
By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Describe the environmental implications of Generative AI.
- Explore some guiding questions to decide about AI use.
- Develop a personalized AI use philosophy that embodies your environmental values.
- List practical strategies to minimize carbon/water use in working with AI
Emily Simpson is an Instructional Associate at Vancouver Community College
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