E-Waste Challenges of Generative Artificial Intelligence
Generative AI contributes to growing e-waste, but circular economy strategies could significantly reduce its environmental impact.
AI & Environment Resource HubElectronic waste, reuse, recycling, and circular resource flows.
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Generative AI contributes to growing e-waste, but circular economy strategies could significantly reduce its environmental impact.
This paper advocates for integrating Feminist African Ethics into Sustainable AI discourse to address the environmental and social injustices, particularly affecting African women, arising from AI’s carbon footprint, e-waste, and extractive lifecycles.
This paper presents SOLID-MAP, an AI-driven material acceleration platform that integrates active learning, thermodynamic modeling, and high-throughput experimentation to rapidly discover and evaluate high-entropy alloys for energy-relevant applications.
Matbench Discovery is a benchmarking framework for machine learning models used in materials discovery, highlighting the importance of task-specific metrics and demonstrating that universal interatomic potentials can effectively pre-screen stable inorganic materials in high-throughput workflows.
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