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Scientists Predict AI to Generate Millions of Tons of E-Waste
Artificial intelligence is rapidly getting better at mimicking its human creators.
But as a new study by researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Reichman University in Israel warns, artificial intelligence may also be inadvertently imitating another, less noble hallmark of modern humanity: trashing the environment. Led by Peng Wang, an expert in resource management with the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Key Lab of Urban Environment and Health, the study's authors calculated a forecast of possible e-waste quantities created by generative AI between 2020 and 2030. By examining these different scenarios, Peng and his colleagues draw attention to an important point: Generative AI doesn't necessarily have to impose such an excessive e-waste burden.
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