#34: Artificial Intelligence - the Social and Environmental Implications / Catherine Miller, Holger Berg

With the release of AI (Artificial Intelligence) applications
such as  ChatGPT, Dall-E-2, and Runway Gen-2, artificial
intelligence has ultimately become mainstream. Today, internet
access is virtually all it takes to create AI-generated images,
text, and video in the blink of an eye. Even though first effects
are already clearly noticeable: The short and medium-term
consequences of this rapid development are not yet foreseeable
even for experts.


In the new episode of the Wuppertal Institute’s podcast
Zukunftswissen.fm, Catherine Miller, Director of the European AI
& Society Fund, and Dr. Holger Berg, Vice-Director of the
Circular Economy Research Division and Co-Head of the Digital
Transformation Research Unit at the Wuppertal Institute, talk
about the social and ecological impact of AI: On the one hand,
they discuss the resource requirements of AI applications – from
the use of rare earths for hardware manufacturing to the energy
needed for the operation of AI models to the human labor required
for system development. Secondly, Berg and Miller talk about the
social aspects of AI, such as the psychologically stressful labor
performed by workers in the Global South who train AI models, or
the use of AI in determining prison sentences and in credit
allocation processes. Miller and Berg raise the question of the
extent to which regulation of AI is needed – and whether politics
can keep up with the rapid development of AI applications. How AI
can help to combat climate change and which conflicts of interest
emerge in this context, are other topics discussed in the podcast
episode.


It's going to be exciting! Listen in and stay informed:
#ZukunftswissenFM



** Links:


Catherine Miller, https://europeanaifund.org/our-work/


European AI & Society Fund, https://europeanaifund.org/


Holger Berg, https://wupperinst.org/c/wi/c/s/cd/1319


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