The workshop brings together active researchers from academia with industrial experts who use AI to solve real-world problems, and aim to make AI sustainable. It is a platform for exchanging new ideas and fostering future research collaborations on using AI technology responsibly, and understanding its environmental impact. This aim lies at the core of the event’s sponsor, Surrey Institute for People Centred AI and the world-leading research on fundamental AI, carried out at CVSSP.
With the advent of technology and computation power in recent years, AI has become widely used by industry and academia across various applications, including natural language processing (NLP), and healthcare. However, the energy efficiency and impact of large-scale AI models like ChatGPTs and Chatbots on the environment have not been well explored yet. AI and Sustainability is one of the six strategic research challenge areas at the core of the Surrey Institute for People-Centred AI (PAI) and supports our ethos to deliver a step-change in AI research, training and innovation . The workshop additionally is grateful for sponsorship from the Institute for Advanced Studies, Institute for Sustainability and EPSRC via the AI for Sound project.
The workshop on AI and sustainability will focus on the following themes:
- What does the sustainability of AI mean?
- Impact of AI on the environment.
- How do academic researchers and industry see the cruciality of the sustainable AI from development to deployment cycle?
- Methods to make AI more energy-efficient and environmentally friendly.
- Tools to measure the environmental impact of AI.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Jeff Adie, Principal Solutions Architect at NVIDIA (attending remotely)
Prof Alex Rogers, University of Oxford
Prof Romain Serziel, University of Lorraine, France.
Dr Girmaw Abebe Tadesse, Microsoft (attending remotely)
Dr Hannah Mary Thomas T, Christian Medical College Vellore, India (attending remotely)
Dr Jill Juergensen, University of Surrey
Dr Nitish Mital and Dr Daniel Mannion, The Alan Turing Institute
ORGANISERS
Dr Arshdeep Singh, University of Surrey
Dr Erick Giovani Sperandio Nascimento, University of Surrey
Professor Mark Plumbley, University of Surrey
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