How is AI impacting people and the planet, and how can we do better? 🌍 In my most recent TED talk, I shed light on how the current way we do AI and explore ways forward in which we can make it more sustainable: www.ted.com/talks/sasha_...

We’re doing AI all wrong. Here’s how to get it right

Artificial intelligence is changing everything — but at what cost? AI sustainability expert Sasha Luccioni exposes how tech companies' massive data centers are burning through energy and wrecking the ...

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As tech firms keep adding the largest and most compute-intensive AI models into more and more aspects of our digital lives, they are increasingly dependent on a growing share of existing energy and natural resources, leading to rising costs for everyone else, write Sasha Luccioni and Yacine Jernite.

How Your Utility Bills Are Subsidizing Power-Hungry AI | TechPolicy.Press

The next few years will be pivotal for determining the future of AI and its impact on energy grids worldwide, write Sasha Luccioni and Yacine Jernite.

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Well folks, the butterfly's out of the bag -- I'm doing another TED talk! 🦋 🎤 Catch me during NYC Climate Week on September 24th for an evening of talks hosted by TED Countdown -- I will be talking about all things AI and sustainability 🌍 countdown.ted.com/ai-for-clima...

Think AI's rising energy demands aren't your problem? Think again! ⚡ In our commentary, @yjernite.bsky.social and I explain how AI & data center expansion is making energy bills rise in the US, what the mechanisms driving this are, and why it matters. www.techpolicy.press/how-your-uti...

How Your Utility Bills Are Subsidizing Power-Hungry AI | TechPolicy.Press

The next few years will be pivotal for determining the future of AI and its impact on energy grids worldwide, write Sasha Luccioni and Yacine Jernite.

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𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗶𝗼 𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝘂𝘁! 🚀 If you've been looking for a lightweight, open-source package to use for tracking metrics, parameters, and hyperparameters, look no further! 👩‍💻 Trackio is local-first, free and open-source, and comes integrated with 🤗 Datasets and Spaces 📈 huggingface.co/blog/trackio

Introducing Trackio: A Lightweight Experiment Tracking Library from Hugging Face

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

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I am so grateful that this paper is out! It so eloquently describes so many of the issues I've seen with a lot of AGI experimentation that concludes that LLMs are scheming, ill-intentioned, or malicious, and the chimp language metaphor is the cherry on the cake 🍰 arxiv.org/abs/2507.03409

Lessons from a Chimp: AI "Scheming" and the Quest for Ape Language

We examine recent research that asks whether current AI systems may be developing a capacity for "scheming" (covertly and strategically pursuing misaligned goals). We compare current research practice...

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Friends! Does anyone know of any model distillation with public logs (W&B or other)? I'm trying to figure out the energy tradeoffs between model training and distillation..

. @sashamtl.bsky.social takes centre stage at the AI for Good Summit, hitting hard with the urgent and critical issues of Co2 emissions, energy demands, and cooling water needs demands of AI, stressing the planet

I was so tempted to take a Sharpie to this monstrosity 😇

Dr Abeba Birhane@abeba.blacksky.app · last yr.

on display at the AI for Good Summit in the main hall

Sometimes it's hard to find allies in a big room full of people talking about AI.. thankfully @abeba.bsky.social is always there to kick ass and call for accountability 🦋

I've always felt that Montréal is a safe space for research -- it’s a city that values science, collaboration, and diversity, and I’m proud to call it home 🏠 Like I said in the video: Montréal is home—and all are welcome.💖🦋 youtu.be/dWiL4b7-KEA

R&D in Montréal | Montréal Loves Researchers | Harness the Power of your Research in Canada

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Tomorrow @facct.bsky.social , 9:36am (☕️☕️☕️), @sashamtl.bsky.social and I on stage questioning the bigger-is-better narrative in AI. Come for the 🌶, stay for the evidence and critical thinking (hopefully)

a man in a striped sweater is sitting on a couch

ALT: a man in a striped sweater is sitting on a couch

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Gaël Varoquaux@gaelvaroquaux.bsky.social · last yr.

As an AI developer, this is my "Am I the baddy?" moment

New @sashamtl.bsky.social et al paper - assessing whether machine learning model developers disclose basic environmental / energy information with their models. They mostly do not!! Grim results for most of the big companies: arxiv.org/abs/2506.15572 huggingface.co/spaces/sasha...

Does a ChatGPT query really use ten times more energy than a Google search? Does training any AI model emit as much CO2 as 5 cars? and can AI help us reduce global GHG emissions by 10%? 🤔 We tracked down the origins of these numbers 🕵‍♀️ and wrote a paper about it! arxiv.org/abs/2506.15572

how much energy does your ChatGPT search really use? i wrote about the trials and tribulations of putting a number on AI emissions, & how some of the most powerful companies in the world could clear it up for us — but they're staying silent. feat a peek at new research from @sashamtl.bsky.social !

How Much Energy Does AI Use? The People Who Know Aren’t Saying

A growing body of research attempts to put a number on energy use and AI—even as the companies behind the most popular models keep their carbon emissions a secret.

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One of the biggest frustrations I have is the lack of transparency around AI's energy use and environmental impacts. I know the numbers are out there... but somehow we're not seeing them 🫠 Thank you @wired.com for covering this topic in such depth and detail ! www.wired.com/story/ai-car...

How Much Energy Does AI Use? The People Who Know Aren’t Saying

A growing body of research attempts to put a number on energy use and AI—even as the companies behind the most popular models keep their carbon emissions a secret.

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I had someone tell me "I didn't know there was more to AI than LLMs" today and I swear I died a little inside 🥺

Your Honor, please let the record reflect that I had a massive crush on Pedro Pascal way before everyone else did ... over 2 years ago. Check out the evergreen Space I made to find your inner Pedro here! huggingface.co/spaces/sasha...

I didn't announce this when it happened, but my article, "Metaethical perspectives for 'Benchmarking' AI ethics", with @sashamtl.bsky.social, was published back in March in the AI and Ethics journal. doi.org/10.1007/s436...

Metaethical perspectives on ‘benchmarking’ AI ethics - AI and Ethics

Benchmarks are seen as the cornerstone for measuring technical progress in artificial intelligence (AI) research and have been developed for a variety of tasks ranging from question answering to emoti...

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Never thought I'd see my name in a museum exhibit! 🥹 A quote from my TED talk is featured in an exhibit on AI at the Exploratorium in San Francisco -- go check it out if you're in town!

People saying "thank you" to ChatGPT is apparently costing OpenAI tens of millions of dollars -- but how does that translate to energy? ⚡ We ran some experiments where we show that the total energy consumed is ~0.245 Wh (roughly equivalent to powering a 5 W LED bulb for approximately 3 minutes).

Also - SHOW 👏 US 👏 THE 👏 DAMN 👏 RECEIPTS

Dr Sasha Luccioni@sashamtl.bsky.social · last yr.

Finally some numbers about ChatGPT's energy and water use? ⚡ Even if this is the true amount of energy used for a query (and that's a big if!), multiplied by the billions of queries a day, this adds up massively. And that's not counting image generation, which is much more energy-intensive!

Finally some numbers about ChatGPT's energy and water use? ⚡ Even if this is the true amount of energy used for a query (and that's a big if!), multiplied by the billions of queries a day, this adds up massively. And that's not counting image generation, which is much more energy-intensive!

Main takeaways from @epochai.bsky.social analysis: "𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘶𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘈𝘐 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘶𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘥𝘰𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘴, 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘤𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥𝘴 𝘣𝘰𝘵𝘩 𝘥𝘰𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳."

📢 The Butterfly Effect: measuring AI's Impacts on Society and the Environment : le 11 juin, l’ENS vous convie à une conférence exceptionnelle de @sashamtl.bsky.social‬, titulaire de la chaire “IA et justice sociale” Fondation Abeona - École normale supérieure - Obvia. 📍 ENS 👉 bit.ly/4kxd0ue

If I wanted a machine designed specifically and solely to blow smoke up my ass I could make one a lot cheaper and safer than an LLM

Jeff Sharlet@jeffsharlet.bsky.social · last yr.

I... oh my god. amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...

I love it when people ask me for photos of me "in the field". You mean.... at home, in front of the computer, in my sweatpants? 😅 Sadly, research in AI isn't quite as visually captivating as, say biology or chemistry! Usually it just involves a computer screen 🤓

Taking a look at Microsoft's 2025 ESG. They report an increase in GHG emissions of 23.4% (and 168% increase in energy use, 71% revenue growth) in 2024 over 2020. In the supplementary material, however, you find that their *actual* (location-based) emissions have increased by 55.4% in that time...

Discovering smaller models perform just as well while using 200x less energy: 🤯 Sometimes the best AI strategy is just... not using the biggest hammer for every nail. Must-read by @sashamtl.bsky.social huggingface.co/blog/bigger-...