Environmental Impacts of AI: Hidden Costs and Inequalities

This presentation is part of the webinar series “Artificial Intelligence: New Social and Ethical Challenges and Opportunities”

Presenter: Christiana Zenner, Ph.D., Fordham University, NY
Wednesday, Feb. 11
7–8:15 p.m. EST via Zoom

In this talk, participants will learn about AI’s hidden ecological infrastructure and environmental costs and will consider several frameworks for ethical discernment about the eco-social implications of this significant new technology.

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Christiana Zenner, Ph.D., is an associate professor of theology, science, and ethics in the Department of Theology at Fordham University, where she is an affiliated faculty in environmental studies and American studies.

This is the SIXTH in a series of seven presentations. Click the titles below to learn about and register for the remaining presentations.

Presentation 1: Understanding AI: What It Is and Why It’s Important
Presentation 2: The Human and the Machine: Anthropological Questions
Presentation 3: The Social Impacts of Relational AI
Presentation 4: Educating in the Age of AI
Presentation 5: AI and Ethical Questions: The Impact on Health Care
Presentation 6: Environmental Impacts of AI: Hidden Costs and Inequalities
Presentation 7: The Future of AI: Marvel, Menace, and Mystery