‘If AI is to help build a better ​future, it must be honest about what it costs us now’: UN urges AI giants to reveal full extent of environmental damage

• UN calls on AI companies to declare environmental cost of AI
• New energy projects and data centers are contributing to pollution
• UN sets up AI Environmental Transparency Initiative to provide insight into the impacts of water usage, carbon emissions, and land usage

Multiple studies on the direct and indirect impact of AI have predicted that the technology is damaging local and global environments, and contributing to man-made climate change.

But the full extent of the damage should be publicly disclosed by AI companies themselves, the United Nations has said.

Speaking during London Climate Action Week, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said, “If AI is to help build a better ​future, it must be honest about what it costs us now.”

Reveal the full environmental cost of AI

“By 2030, they could use ⁠more power than all but five countries – and enough water to meet the basic needs ​of all 1.3...

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