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ECONOMIC ANALYSIS AND POLICY
卷 70, 期 -, 页码 276-293出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.eap.2021.03.002
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Artificial intelligence; Energy intensity; Energy consumption; Industrial robot; China
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资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [71973068]
- Humanities and Social Sciences Research Planning Foundation of China's Ministry of Education [19YJA790055]
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of Japan [20K12283]
- Scientific Research Foundation of Graduate School of Southeast University, China [YBPY1971]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [20K12283] Funding Source: KAKEN
The study found that the application of AI can significantly reduce energy intensity, especially in industries with high energy intensity, and the impact on labor-intensive and technology-intensive industries is more pronounced. The impact of AI on energy intensity is primarily achieved through the facilitation of technological progress.
The continued development of artificial intelligence (AI) has changed production methods but may also pose challenges related to energy consumption; in addition, the effectiveness of AI differs across industries. Thus, to develop efficient policies, it is necessary to discuss the effect of AI adoption on energy intensity and to identify industries that are more significantly affected. Using data on industrial robots installed in 16 Chinese industrial subsectors from 2006 to 2016, this paper investigates both the effect of AI on energy intensity and the channel through which this effect is transmitted. The empirical results show, first, that boosting applications of AI can significantly reduce energy intensity by both increasing output value and reducing energy consumption, especially for energy intensities at high quantiles. Second, compared with the impacts in capital-intensive sectors (e.g., basic metals, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics), the negative impacts of AI on energy intensity in labor-intensive sectors (e.g., textiles and paper) and technology-intensive sectors (e.g., industrial machinery and transportation equipment) are more pronounced. Finally, the impact of AI on energy intensity is primarily achieved through its facilitation of technological progress; this accounts for 78.3% of the total effect. To reduce energy intensity, the Chinese government should effectively promote the development of AI and its use in industry, especially in labor-intensive and technology-intensive sectors. (C) 2021 Economic Society of Australia, Queensland. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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