8 papers
Humour as Resistance: Visceralizing the Environmental and Social Impact of AI through Humour-based Creative Practices
Han Qiao, Rowan O. A. Munson, Nadia Mariyan Smith +2
The growth of AI does not come without cost. While we hear about the economic costs, the environmental and social costs are often obfuscated by mainstream narratives, and even when…
Plateau That Never Comes: When Efficiency Claims in Datacenters and AI Become Greenwashing
Harshit Gujral, Eshta Bhardwaj, Dushani Perera +2
Datacenter expansion under generative AI is increasingly framed as compatible with sustainability because of efficiency gains, cleaner electricity procurement, and improved facilit…
Evaluating Structured Documentation as a Tool for Reflexivity in Dataset Development
Eshta Bhardwaj, Ciara Zogheib, Christoph Becker
It is prominently recognized that dataset development in machine learning is a value-laden process from problem formulation to data processing, use, and reuse. Structured documenta…
Exploring the Viability of the Updated World3 Model for Examining the Impact of Computing on Planetary Boundaries
Nara Guliyeva, Eshta Bhardwaj, Christoph Becker
The influential Limits to Growth report introduced a system dynamics-based model to demonstrate global dynamics of the world's population, industry, natural resources, agriculture,…
Limits at a Distance: Design Directions to Address Psychological Distance in Policy Decisions Affecting Planetary Boundaries
Eshta Bhardwaj, Han Qiao, Christoph Becker
Policy decisions relevant to the environment rely on tools like dashboards, risk models, and prediction models to provide information and data visualizations that enable decision-m…
Limits to AI Growth: The Ecological and Social Consequences of Scaling
Eshta Bhardwaj, Rohan Alexander, Christoph Becker
The accelerating development and deployment of AI technologies depend on the continued ability to scale their infrastructure. This has implied increasing amounts of monetary invest…