AI and Sustainability Class

University of Bordeaux
Aurélie Bugeau, Anne Vialard

Moodle page for Assignments:

https://moodle.u-bordeaux.fr/course/view.php?id=21212

Class objectives

In this class, we will study controversy of AI regarding environment and ethics: how it may benefit sustainable development but also what are its environmental and societal impacts. The learning objectives are:

  • Be able to present an AI solution designed to address environmental adaptation or mitigation - Evaluation: test and project

  • Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of a technological solution from data acquisition to deployment, including data types, AI algorithms, required hardware, and related components - Evaluation: project, practice, test

  • Be able to estimate or measure energy consumption of some hardware - Evaluation: practice, test

  • Be able to identify the assumptions and data required to assess carbon emissions and other impact indicators of an AI system for a given application - Evaluation: project, test

  • Synthesize the available arguments of various stakeholders - Evaluation: project

  • Be able to identify some alternative solutions to the studied system, both technological and non-technological - Evaluation: project

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