How can we leverage technology to scale sustainability while avoiding unintended negative impacts? 🤔
Recently, on CXO Bytes, Sanjay Podder talked to Beliz Kudat about the dual role of technology in driving sustainability, while also contributing to environmental challenges.
Listen to learn how carbon-aware scheduling and efficient coding practices help measure the energy impact of AI.
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When you look at sustainability and if you look at sustainable development goals that we have, the 17 sustainable development goals. One thing that strikes you that they're exponential in nature, the impact is huge. You know, we're not talking about small things, we are talking about scale. And you cannot do anything at scale without technology. And in this case, if we talk about information communication technology, we talk about artificial intelligence, for example. These are precisely the kind of tools we need today to address the sustainability challenges that we are facing with is a climate change, whether it is, you know, issues of building a more inclusive society, for example, biodiversity destruction that is happening. Each of these areas, you need technology, you need AI, you need blockchain, you know, you need digital, right? There's no second thought about it. In fact, we did a a survey. All companies and we found out that 70% of the companies we surveyed, they who were able to reduce the carbon emissions in the production, in their operation, they were able to do it because they use artificial intelligence. So there is absolutely no question about the role of technology and sustainability. But what we miss out is, you know, if we are not using this technology in the right way, in the right manner technology. Itself has a carbon footprint. Technology can cause a big environmental impact. For example, technology can amplify the issues of bias, for example privacy. So we have to make sure that while we use this technology, we have to use it in a very sustainable and responsible way. Search for CSU bytes wherever you get your podcasts.
