Sustainable AI: Closing the Global Climate Action Gap

Artificial intelligence (AI) both reflects and amplifies the systems of power and privilege that birthed it, creating a fast-widening gap between those who design it and those who are subject to it. One of the places that gap looms largest globally is in environmental impact, where centuries of racism, colonialism, and extractivism continue to expand it.

The movement for Environmental Justice (EJ) was actually developed as a direct response to environmental racism, which is the disproportionate impact of …

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