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URL:https://www.ukais.org/events/artificial-intelligence-and-the-environme
 nt-ethical-challenges-and-strategic-opportunities-for-organizations/
SUMMARY:Artificial intelligence and the environment: ethical challenges and
  strategic opportunities for organizations
DESCRIPTION:The UKAIS is delighted to invite you to its first online semina
 r for this academic year. Professor Marco Marabelli (Bentley University) w
 ill present his work (with Prof Robert Davison) on “Artificial intellige
 nce and the environment: ethical challenges and strategic opportunities fo
 r organizations” and he will also introduce the special issue he is curr
 ently guest editing with colleagues at the Information Systems Journal ‘
 Generative AI and the environment: How can IS scholars contribute to addre
 ssing the problem and identifying solutions?’\nPlease disseminate to yo
 ur networks and colleagues. All welcome!\nAbstract\nIn this viewpoint arti
 cle\, our goal is to raise awareness and spark debate in the Information S
 ystems (IS) community regarding a prominent concern that has important str
 ategic and ethical implications: the environmental impact of the increasin
 g use of generative artificial intelligence (GAI). We examine several spec
 ific issues\, beginning with GAI’s heavy consumption of natural resource
 s and electricity. We then move to assessing how the rich and the Global N
 orth gain via GAI\, while the poor and the Global South must deal with its
  adverse effects. We then move to assessing GAI’s impact on underreprese
 nted communities and countries in the Global South\; while GAI contributes
  to global warming\, this affects people unevenly\, because it is mostly r
 ich people and the Global North that make intensive use of these technolog
 ies. After suggesting that more local and global laws are needed to regula
 te the sustainable use of AI\, we report on how organizations can perform 
 AI strategizing\, for instance to control emissions in smart cities and im
 prove weather forecasting. We conclude with a research agenda that aims to
  encourage IS scholars to focus on the environmental impact of AI\, its et
 hical implications for organizations\, and how GAI can be used strategical
 ly to benefit all.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n__________________________________________
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