Effects of Artificial Intelligence on Environment

Abstract

As the term suggests, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is genuinely artificial. However, one cannot deny that it has drastically transformed the methods of computing data, optimizing systems, and brought innovations in almost all the fields of life by making it easier for the human societies. In spite of its prudent societal advantages, AI gives rise to critically consequential environmental confrontations and probabilities. Some of the glaring issues constitute high energy requirements and water consumption, mounting carbon emissions from data centers and hardware lifecycles, natural resources degeneration and e-waste formation. Contrarily, AI possesses the power to optimize energy systems, decrease emissions, augment renewable deployment and ensure environmental monitoring. This research endeavour facilitates an extensive peeping in the environmental impacts of AI, amalgamating pragmatic evidence from cross-disciplinary research and highlighting policy implications for sustainable development using AI.