"Building AI sustainably seems like a pipe dream as tech giants that previously made promises to cut emissions have been racing to build out massive data centers powered by fossil fuels."
"Luccioni has become a leader in trying to create more transparency about AI's emissions and environmental impacts in her four years at Hugging Face, an AI company, including pioneering a leaderboard documenting the energy efficiency of open-source AI models."
"Now, she's starting Sustainable AI Group, a new venture with former Salesforce sustainability chief Boris Gamazaychikov. They'll focus on helping companies answer, among other things, "what are the levers that we can play with in order to make agents slightly less bad?""
"Luccioni is also interested in sussing out the energy needs of different types of AI tools, such as speech-to-text translation, or photo-to-video-an area that's she says has so far been understudied."
Massive AI buildouts powered by fossil fuels and reduced environmental protections create headwinds for sustainable AI. Demand for transparency about AI’s environmental impacts is increasing from customers, including employees and boards. Sasha Luccioni works to document and publicize energy efficiency for open-source AI models through a leaderboard and criticizes major companies for withholding sustainability information. She is launching Sustainable AI Group with Boris Gamazaychikov to help companies identify practical levers to reduce harm from AI agents. The work also aims to measure energy needs across different AI tools, including speech-to-text and photo-to-video, areas described as understudied.
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