Journal
PHILOSOPHIES
Volume 7, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/philosophies7010004
Keywords
AI ethics; AI carbon footprint; environmental responsibilities of AI scientists; global issues in AI ethics
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This article examines the ethical implications of the growing AI carbon footprint and highlights the importance of fairly distributing responsibilities among different groups involved. It also discusses the emergence of a global ethical issue related to the threats that AI-powered cyberweapons pose to nuclear weapons systems.
This article examines ethical implications of the growing AI carbon footprint, focusing on the fair distribution of prospective responsibilities among groups of involved actors. First, major groups of involved actors are identified, including AI scientists, AI industry, and AI infrastructure providers, from datacenters to electrical energy suppliers. Second, responsibilities of AI scientists concerning climate warming mitigation actions are disentangled from responsibilities of other involved actors. Third, to implement these responsibilities nudging interventions are suggested, leveraging on AI competitive games which would prize research combining better system accuracy with greater computational and energy efficiency. Finally, in addition to the AI carbon footprint, it is argued that another ethical issue with a genuinely global dimension is now emerging in the AI ethics agenda. This issue concerns the threats that AI-powered cyberweapons pose to the digital command, control, and communication infrastructure of nuclear weapons systems.
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