Quiz: how sustainable is AI?

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  • I think AI is sustainable as you can ask it questions and it will answer it for you so you can do what you need on it. You can do things educational and more. It saves paper and word document can help you write things than rewrite it over and over again

    1. But what about the environment? In 2030, the amount of waste AI would make is Millions.
      We can’t afford to lose the planet just because of AI. Also, it produces green-house gases and carbon dioxide, which makes our planet more dirty. We should stop AI

      1. I think we can both agree that AI isn't the best use of our resources and that in the long run AI will more then likely harm our planet. You also need to take into consideration that things we do day to day also contribute to the greenhouse gasses in our atmosphere. In truth almost everything that we do isn't sustainable such as driving everywhere, taking a shower, and using the internet which I'm sure that you have done. Considering all these points how is AI the main stimulate for us losing the planet?

        1. I'm not sure about this because, would you want to suffer all in the name of not losing the planet? don't you think that the AI can be of help in sustaining the planet? for example, you can make researches online with the aid of the AI getting more information about what to do to save and sustain the planet. And let me remind you that the AI has made life easier for man making the world global and creating jobs for man because one don't really need to leave his/her comfort zone in search of opportunities.

          1. I'm not sure about this because using the facts just given now, AI uses millions of tonnes of natural resources so how is that sustainable? Although AI has helped adults get jobs, AI, in the future can take jobs away as its intelligence enhances. If you search up how to save the planet, the answer is right in front of you because you can just turn off your computer for a while and that contributes to saving the world. Thank you for reading this.

        2. I agree because AI takes up alot of resources and maybe we could develop a new technology that will allow AI to be more substainable or even better in some ways!

          1. I agree with charismatic_power as AI is an absolutely incredible device but it is ruined by the amount of carbon dioxide it releases and the amount of energy is wasted. If we could find a more sustainable way to use AI we could be looking at a new revolution of technology.

      2. I agree because there is no point in running our planet just so that some technology can take over our lives because humans are too lazy to do it for themselves. We need to save our planet so that future generations can enjoy it too! The world doesn’t belong to us! It belongs to everyone and future generations deserve to enjoy it too. We have been selfish and destroyed the planet for future generations!!!

        1. I do agree with you, but we must translate this ideas in actions.

          1. Resourceful_flight do you have some examples of how we might translate the ideas into actions as you suggest?

        2. I agree with you gentle avocado, it is true that humans shouldn't use AI to do everything for them or just to improve their future, but from my view I say we might still need technology to help us in different areas of our lives, in fact, AI would be so instrumental in some advancements to make the world more sustainable for future generations to enjoy, so in my opinion, if we can sustain AI well enough to not takeover human roles someday, we would be glad we put AI to good use and future generations would thank us.

          1. I agree because...
            we shouldn't use ai to do everything in our live What did the teachers do while you are a cheating, and you do not know the answrr, you will open gemini or chat gpt and the people cheat and low thier intelligence. Why do we cheat, work hard and smart, and you will do a lot, you can do the impossible without cheating. but the choice is for you to work hard or to cheat.
            thank you topical talk 🌹

      3. Thank you for your comment. Do you have numbers and examples to evidence your response? All human activities are producing carbon dioxide, does that mean we should stop humans :) ?
        It is worth balancing good use cases and bad use cases for AI? how much responsibilities should be given to individuals when using AI and how companies or states should address risks from AI to the environment.

        1. I agree with your point about "all human activities producing carbon dioxide" because this is the reality. It is important that people are aware of this before going against everything that produces carbon dioxide. I also understand the huge Carbon Emissions of AI, however it is vital that we look at your point and word our comments in an appropriate way

          1. I totally agree with you because AI polutes a lot due to many working machines that keeps it powerful. These really do produce a lot of carbon dioxide which harms our enviroment and our planet. In the future AI might take over which is really bad for us hummans.

            1. Interesting ideas. Can you think of any positive effects of AI?

              1. Yes, of course!! AI can help people in their jobs and specific questions they might ask about a topic. AI is useful in communicating with people that speak other languages. You could also ask AI for some advice when you run out of ideas on a concept.

                1. I agree because although AI can sometimes be wrong it's useful for information like this!

      4. I disagree because Ai is ruining our environment,ok it is good for doctors but the people that love shopping they don’t need it and this is why deforestation is happening deforestation is when all our trees get cut down and this is not ok if I could I would put a stop this as quick as I can

        1. I agree as it can be harmful to the environment and our selves as some of is can get addicted which isn't good so we shouldn't use AI

          1. How do you think we can prevent people becoming addicted?

      5. I do agree with your point except the fact that we should stop using AI because AI is a very useful resource to humans , it's just that we should know how to use it properly and find ways to make it less harmful to the environment.

        1. I agree with your point that AI is a very useful resource because it can help us in numerous ways,like it can help us in our studies and every day chores. But we cannot deny that AI is unsustainable. Along with helping us,it is also harming our planet because due to AI carbon emissions are and wastage of water is increasing.But we can make it sustainable by using AI properly and by finding ways to make it sustainable,stop using it is not an option.

          1. I certainly agree with you as AI is a stepping stone towards the humanity's technological era, however I feel that relying on AI for our basic chores and studies would fuel the carbon emission faster than we predict and honestly it is not just the corporates responsibility to create a sustainable eco system around them but also us, as the responsible users and awake citizens need to understand that till the time no concrete sustainable solution to counter the carbon emissions by AI we need to monitor our dependency and usage so that we can not only use AI sustainably but also prevent the future generations from losing the very aspect of advancement through AI.

        2. I agree with you. AI is a very strong and useful tool in humanity today as it is playing a mass, major role in the world making things much more better but we are not still playing our role, which is sustaining our environment. We are not playing along with AI painting it black. I believe that if we can do our own part and reduce our global footprint, we can keep our planet fit and okay today.

      6. I agree because I think that protect our planet and environnement is more important than the technological progress.
        Indeed, I believe that the Global Warming is our priority. We have to raise awareness all the government to this actuality.

        1. I agree because nature and our environment is more important than AI.

      7. I agree with you on the fact that AI does a lot of damage to the planet. However, it is now everywhere in our society (on our phone, on some cars etc…) and it has some positive aspects today (it can save lives and help the scientists for example). I think it I would be too complicated for us to stop using AI. Instead, we could think about how using it in a more sustainable way or we could propose some solutions to limit the negative aspects, especially on the environment.

        1. I agree because according to my research Elon musk is trying his best to make humans migrate to other planets. Stoping the use of AI would only make the process slower and after al it's not only machines that damage the planet with new developments coming up every day, humanity will reach a certain point where AI would no longer harm the planet THANK YOU.

      8. if we stop AI it will greatly affect us as humans because AI has helped in vast areas of life like the medical field, education, farming and many others. if we stop AI it would reduce the productivity of these fields, For us in this new age AI has become a habit because we use it in basically all our tasks and activity , it is even fair to say that AI has become a lifestyle cause it has been incorporated in almost everything like E-houses ,robot who could serve as personal assistants and other things. in addition with the amount of data that AI has, it can help in the reduction of carbon emission through various statistics AI is the future and it is also evolving and someday it can be sustainable.

      9. I disagree because... we need AI because it can help us .

        1. Can you give some examples of how AI could help?

      10. I agree because After at least 2 or 3 more years the waste and toxic that's going in the world is or will be extreme and I do not think it will be over soon or even later. Yes I agree with you yeah because it is really useful to save the world and planet I don't think anyone will actually survive by 2030 Because it's not easy a eyes is also the amount of pollution and plastic leaving around the world we need to make this world clean because soon enough it's gonna look like a plastic world

      11. I disagree because AI is not the best resource because it is likely to make things worse and damage the planet as it produces green house gases. The things we do to AI now contributes to the future of the planet and the things that live on it. And we could possibly develop another way which is better for our planet. Or we could develop AI as it is helpul for humans and creates jobs but harms the planet.

    2. I do not think that AI is sustainable as it creates many problems one of them being the waste of electricity it creates millions of wasted energy. For AI to be sustainable it needs to use less energy, and not produce a huge amount of greenhouse gasses and carbon dioxide. Also, the function of AI is an alright system but it causes many problems in our society we are living in and overall creates a bad environment which means AI is still not yet sustainable.

      1. I strongly agree that AI is not sustainable reason been that AI has caused more ham than good, what I am trying to say is that AI is causing part problem of why we have huge amount of greenhouse gasses and high waste of electricity which is causing home to die slow . So i think that before 2030 the will have lesser electricity and causing more people to die. finally i will like if we reduce the amount of AI to save our planet .THANKS

      2. I agree with you @ curious fish AI is not yet sustainable I know that AI helps us with many things like security, Froud detector and so much more but there are some commands that we give AI that might harm the environment like if we give it a command like get rid of my trash you would dint know weather it will burn the trash or it might throw it in water sours what I am trying to say is that AI is not yet sustainable
        THANK YOU

    3. I disagree because... it causes carbon emission

    4. I agree with you cheerful butterfly. I think AI is sustainable because it helps us to work on our assignments, it provides answers to problems etc.
      Sometimes AI provides wrong answers to our problems which can lead to trouble. We humans should be careful the way we use AI because it can affect us in this ways:
      1. AI can make us lazy.
      2. When we overuse AI we will not want to express our creativity, etc.

    5. Although I understand that you can use it for educational and environmentally safe reasons, there are also negative ways that you can use AI. They can be used to spy on you and get data from you, they can be used to cheat on a test or in any ways which doesn't support your learning growth, and most importantly it causes more criminal activity by allowing people to clone faces, voices, or even identities. Therefore, although AI could be sustainable these three negative uses of AI are making it impossible to sustain.

    6. I dont think that AI is sustainable. AI uses millions of liters of water everday just so that we can get answers on some questions that we can also search in books or even on google that is also bad for envioremnt but not as much as AI. We need to prioritize our planets future.

      1. I agree with you because AI sucks a lot of energy supply even though AI does a lot of work for us AI is still not good.AI makes people very lazier

        1. Do you think it's lazy or could it be seen as using tools to make us more efficient?

    7. I completely agree however just one AI model can use as much energy as a car in its entire life time. I strongly believe AI is not sustainable yet they use tons of water to cool the computers, so they don’t overload and overheat. This is a waste of water that shouldn’t be using. Furthermore, many people have are in difficult situations where water scarce.

      On the other hand, AI could help prepare for the future. It could give us solutions that could hugely help us. Job such as doctors and scientist use AI to help Solve new problems that have a risen.

    8. I agree because... ai is useful for studies! It creates flashcards and questions that you can answer to help revise for upcoming tests or assignments

      1. Thank you for your comment, resplendent_rainforest! Can you think of any other positive applications of AI? How about any negative ones?

      2. I agree with you, but what about environment ? Even if ai is really useful and is a big step forward, its environmental impact can’t be ignored. Over hundreds of millions of emissions will be released by 2030 because of ai. We’ll have to regulate this before it gets too bad for us.

    9. I respect your point of view cheerful butterfly but according to my perspective I don't feel that AI is sustainable. It has helped humans a lot but it has also stopped humans from thinking . The thinking level is going down per day. It uses a lot of electricity which is hazardous for future generations. Also the amount of water for cooling down the system after sending a Email is really very high which makes it unsustainable. We should use AI but only when it is actually required. We can make it sustainable by finding the ways for it.

    10. I do not agree that AI is sustainable though it can help find the best possible approach to resource management in areas like agriculture, transportation, energy which help lead to reduced waste and provide increased efficiency. AI can also help detect pollution, track deforestation and enable faster and more effective responses to environmental issues. For AI to be sustainable the carbon footprint must be reduced and this can be done by looking for ways to power the AI tools. How it is disposed and recycled must must be worked on.

    11. I disagree because to train AI they make up lots of green-house gases which is bad for the planet and increases climate change.

    12. I disagree because it may be helpful but n

    13. I disagree because... it may be useful but it’s killing earth it is not sustainable as you can not rely on it all the time. AI is still helpful so if their was a way to make it a sustainable product then it would be a better option for the planet 🌍.
      Please share your opinions

    14. Hi cheerful butterfly i disagree with your comment because being sustainable means it can be used with out causing damage that can not be changed. From my class discuion i know that AI can release 40% of carbon dioxide. and like jazzed apple said it can release a lot of green house gas emmisions and is polluting the environment. My inferance is that it will use up a lot of water my evidence to back this up is if the computer sytem overheats they use 2.7 litres of water just to cool the sytem down . AI is slowly getting more common and as we use it more they will release more greenhouse gas emmisions and use up more water. So my conclusion is that AI is not sustainable.

    15. I disagree because Ai is always using up people and destroying the world and is also using a lot of techniques that includes greenery like you could use wood for ai and you have to use a lot of water for it to actually work some people say that it is sustainable like you just did but I would say that it is not as it's not safe and people don't think on their own this makes people not more independent and they rely on the AI's that they have. e.g : Alexander and siri

      1. Interesting thoughts - what do you think could be done to help people feeling like they have a lack of independence as a result of using AI too much?

    16. I do agree with you cheerful_butterfly but you are only focusing on the benefits of AI not it's cons. I mean just because AI is a very helpful resource to humans we should not forget the damage it's doing to our environment and at a time like this where global warming is increasing day by day saving the environment should be our first priority. I know that AI has helped many people like scientists , doctors , farmers and many more but don't you think that students who are using AI to complete their assignments are making themselves dependent on AI and making it a barrier which stops them from using their creativity. So , I don't think that AI is sustainable but we should definitely find ways to make it sustainable.

    17. I do agree with you cheerful_butterfly but you are only focusing on the benefits of AI not it's cons. I mean just because AI is a very helpful resource to humans we should not forget the damage it's doing to our environment and at a time like this where global warming is increasing day by day saving the environment should be our first priority. I know that AI has helped many people like scientists , doctors , farmers and many more but don't you think that students who are using AI to complete their assignments are making themselves dependent on AI and creating it a barrier which stops them from using their creativity. So , I don't think that AI is sustainable but we should definitely find ways to make it sustainable.

    18. I agree with you because Ai helps reduce paper usage, optimize energy consumption , reducing food waste and help people with they work or assignments, prioritize energy efficiency, increase the use of renewable energy. In the other hand, it will replace jobs, it will make people loss the ability to think critical or solve problems, security risks, unfair treatment and being bias. Hence, it will not solve our problem in the world like wars, climate change, resource management, food shortage etc.

    19. I disagree with you cheerful butterfly because AI is answering your questions and it won't leave you to learn and do it yourself and as is giving you the answer is making you lazier and you get homework for more understanding

    20. I'm not sure about this because even if AI is sustainable, lots of electricity will be wasted. If we use AI too much, it could even damage the Earth, and it's also unhealthy spending lots of time using AI. Respectfully, I do hate AI at occasions. Sometimes, I do really like using AI, and you sometimes need AI for things you're struggling with, like if you want to improve your grammar, AI helps, but if you use it all the time, every week, then you're wasting electricity and you're damaging your eyes. I'd rather type words than use AI because I'm a person who wants to keep the planet nice and healthy. As if you use AI all the time, the planet will be very messy, uncomfortable and sometimes unsafe.

    21. I think AI is sustainable because you can get educated easily but people are saying in a few years AI will be teaching humans.

    22. I'm not sure about this because even though it saves the trees by not using paper, it still uses humongous amounts of resources and that is just as unsustainable as deforestation. I feel that word document is not such a large contributor of the amount of sustainability but the part where you said you can use it over and over again, I challenge that. I think that this point is not that logical because you can use the same paper over and over again, can't you? If you have and doubts about my points, you are free to challenge me. Thank you for reading this.

    23. I agree with you cheerful_butterfly as AI can help you with educational purposes such as learning about a such as finding information from a subject , learning about history and a lot more.I also agree about the part when you said it can save paper and word documents because instead using lots and lots of paper for idea or restarting something , AI can just re-write on the same piece of paper without using more than one.

    24. i disagree with you cheerful butterfly because AI can release toxic gas into the environment and it also is a good way to bully people online. I think this because we need to care for our environment and even tho you can do stuff educationally it also is important to let your eyes rest and work on paper. However, it is great for saving things for work and things because that is important.

    25. I disagree because, yes you can ask it questions and it will answer it for you but the quiz said that one AI source produces over 285000 kg worth of electronic waste which will speed up climate change up. The result of climate change could eliminate the human race .

    26. I agree with you cheerful butterfly because. Yes AI can answer your questions and can do a whole lot for us to make our lives easier, I however have a few concerns. Recently, Sweden changed its educational policy reintroducing hard copy books into its schools as opposed to introduction of computers about twenty years ago. The reason for this is because they noticed a decline in the ability of their students and pupils to reason deeply because of over reliance on the internet. This is one of the major downsides of AI. It has the capacity to make people very lazy, because it does everything for them.

      1. That's interesting, do you prefer studying from hard books or computers?

    27. I disagree because it takes even more resources to train and use AI than printing any document. Although AI is fascinating and can do alot. the problems would still out weigh the benefits

    28. i disagree because you still need the materials to build and run AI. It uses lots of water and you still need to mine into the earth to get the resources and there is not an infinite amount of iron.

    29. I'm not sure about this because, I agree with you that Ai is sustainable but about saving paper and word documents I guess this could make people use technology 24/7 which will harm our planet and most of the planet will be distroyed for future Generations and they cannot enjoy planet earth like we did so this will be unfair. So we should find solutions to use technology in a limit not to harm the planet and also to use the technology fairly.

    30. I can see your point as AI can help people like Doctors and Scientists for helping finding cures to diseases such as cancer and maybe even find diseases that have not occurred yet. AI can also help Scientists find solutions to massive global problems like climate change. AI is a absolute incredible device and can really do amazing things sometimes as it can also help farmers growing their crops and food.

    31. I can see your point as AI can help us in every day lives as doctors need it for curing diseases and scientists need it for solving baffling problems like climate change but there is no denying that AI is harmful to the environment. AI produces a mind blowing amount of energy even for just placing a search in an AI platform and one day this world we live in will not be the same. If we can find a sustainable way to use AI than we will be looking at a new era of technology with a stunning device to solve world wide problems with no harm to the environment.

    32. I agree because if you ask AI any questions it will give you a answer in milliseconds.It's also sustainable because it helps people like a,scientist,a university student,and a forest ranger.It helps a scientist by letting them spot natural disasters,it also lets them look at images from space,and it can help them spot a early warning of a natural disaster.It helps a university student by letting them,track there deadlines of important things,as well as it helps them study to be an environmental scientist,and it provides educational content.Lastly it helps an forest ranger by letting them see an early warning of like a pollution or something, in addition it help them spot deforestation,and it monitors the forests health.That's why I think it's sustainable.

  • I don’t think AI is very sustainable because according to the quiz, it uses a lot of electricity and causes irreversible damage to our planet. On the other hand, it can come up with solutions to prevent climate change and deforestation. However, this does not make AI sustainable and if we keep on using AI so that it grows bigger day by day, year by year, the world will become even less sustainable and it won’t be what it could’ve been.

    1. Hi humble elderberry,
      I solidly agree with your incredible comment about AI being sustainable. As for me , I see Artificial intelligence bots as an advantage and disadvantage simultaneously because according to the lesson I had from my teacher, we also discussed about AI consuming lots of energy and resources which can also be recycled for another project. The real truth is that AI is partially sustainable and then on the other hand, is not So despite the fact AI bots consumes energies does not mean is totally bad. No! lets be logistic, The AI intelligence has contributed strong in majority with of taxes of which humans are finding difficult in doing in the past years. For example, farming was not the essential for the last decades ago.
      I never wanted to totally disagree with your comment of course it was awesome but to modify and for the purpose of clarity.
      Thank you very much.

    2. In reply to humble elderberry because, AI on it's own side has caused a lot of damages to the world more especially to the users of AI due to the fact AI helps in our daily life it is also one of the things affecting us. AI consumes five times more the power it takes to power an electrical watch to 50% therefore it ends up taking up the power needed by humans.so in my own opinion i would say that AI isn't sustainable and if the world continues like this the whole world might be damaged.

    3. I also agree with you humble_elderly that AI is not at all sustainable. It creates millions of tons of electronic waste (which I learnt from the quiz) and also uses natural resources on a large scale ( like water) which could be used to help the needy in a big way. So if we don't use AI judiciously, then we're basically biting of our own hand that feeds us (nature).

    4. I agree because... AI consume a lot of energy that is meant to charge our phones to 50% battery and it affect our planet , because we citizens uses the electricity to charge our phones, watch television during our leisure time and use it in our work places.
      But AI can be sustainable if developed and be used properly. we should use AI for good, we should also minimize the harm and maximize the usefulness of AI in our environment and every part of our lives.

  • I don’t think Ai is a sustainable because it is using to much energy and it is ruining the environment and this is why deforestation is happening

    1. I think there is no connection with deforestation. AI’s problems with the environment mainly concerns the energy used. Moreover Ai can be the technology that will find solutions to regulate global warming through science. To conlude Ai is not the main source of pollution, before criticizing the relation between Ai and climate, we should first change our habits and our relation to environment especially by reducing our use of pollution transport.

      1. I agree because the fact that human are the responsable of deforastation make the rise of AI a new solution to deforastation and then global warming. AI is certainly not the biggest source of pollution on earth. Moreover, I’m sur we can reduce a lot the hight quantity of energy used by Ai thanks to new technologies that will improve the fight against global warming.

    2. I disagree because... AI energy usage can be reduced as times goes on companies will be seeing the disadvantages and will try to reduce it or if possible try their best to stop it and i think why it should be sustained is because of it can be used to detect weather change in our country and it helps us in our academic life and it should also be sustained because of agriculture, AI machines are used and need in farm work to increase the rate of speed. thank you

  • I don’t think AI is very sustainable because i believe that it has produce many problems like it using a lot of emissions and energy which could be used for better things .

    1. I agree because...for me ai is just a waste of time because causes carbon emission

      1. I don't really concur to your comment because AI can not be a waste of time because, the people that came together and thought of what they could make to make life easier didn't have the intention of making it harmful or possible of causing carbon emission but instead, the rate at which it is used per day is becoming harmful therefore causing carbon emission and the depletion of the ozone layer which is not going to be good for the health.

  • In my opinion AI is unsustainable because AI is releasing as much emissions as a car alone! I can’t believe how destructive we can be even when we don’t even mean to be

    1. I disagree with you when because that AI model is produced it will stop making emissions and the car will. Besides the AI can suggest revolutionary ways of reducing those emissions such as electric vehicles like cars and trains which has been proven to be better for the environment.

    2. I totally disagree with you genius_volcano because we are the ones misusing ai. we should also note that ai did not start existing naturally. we humans are the ones who manufacture and program ai machines to do specific functions. AI are used by humans for our own benefits without considering that too much of everything is bad. so i would say that ai is destructive because we humans use it too much. THANKS

  • I must say this QUIZ was absolutely fabulous. I scored a perfect score of 8 out of 8. I must admit before taking the quiz I did a huge research on this topic and doubt that without the research I would not have done so well. But I would not consider it as cheating as research is an important part of our lives. Even though it was really shocking to know about the enormous load of resources used for just a "simple" task of AI. It made me gain a new respect for our nature and sustainability. After taking the quiz I pledged myself to reduce my AI usage and create awareness amongst other people about the same too.

  • I don’t think that AI is sustainable yet because we can’t reverse the damage that it does to our earth . If we manage to find a sustainable way for AI to be used then it would be great because when eg: a farmer uses AI to give us food how nice would it be if they wasn’t using as much energy as it does now ?

    1. In my opinion AI shouldn't be used to replace humans in work. We just have to use it as a tool but it can't act the part of humans.

  • I do not particularly agree with the fact that Artificial Intelligence is sustainable and efficient for the planet. To emphasize the meaning of sustainability, I would like to ask all the Artificial Intelligence supporters a peculiar question which I am sure would beg lot of thinking, 'How would Artificial Intelligence thrive after depleting resources of the place where it is supposed to be established and refined?' I am of course saying that if the Earth is in a state which doesn't support the advanced requirements such as tons of liters of water to cool the supercomputer 's data bases, millions of kilo-watts of electricity etc. then how would it help us by any means? Artificial Intelligence is no doubt a way to make everything around us easier and efficient but at what cost? at the cost of our shared residence? Is so incredibly important to use AI to administer the world, drive cars or write emails ? Wasn't the world working before its invention? The stats shown in the above quiz are flabbergasting to say the least. Is it practical to use millions of liters of waters just to quench(not the thirst of the quarter of the world's population) the heat of the databases generated by often our searches. Concluding with a solution, AI should only be limited in fields where it can help refine their previous outputs. The damages are irreversible and planet is singular.

    1. I agree. AI is not sustainable within our society, and it can cause more harm than good on our plant. According to the quiz, AI uses at least 10 times more electricity than a regular search on google. AI uses far more things to fix issues than what is needed. AI needs to be used to sustain things that can be fixed without any further problem since the damages that could be done when AI is used unmonitored could strike even more harm on our planet than good.

      1. Can you think of examples of 'damages' caused by AI?

        1. Examples of damages caused by ai includes,
          1. electronic waste: ai manufacturing companies discharge a huge number of wastes daily
          2.it consumes a lot of water
          3. it generates a huge amount of carbon emissions
          4. it leads to mining of metals used in the production of ai machines which causes soil erosion
          5. it consumes a lot of energy
          6. some students are become very lazy due to using ai
          i would also say that the use of ai usage should be restricted so as to reduce the damages it is causing.
          THANKS.

  • In my opinion , I do not think that AI is sustainable because according to the quiz , AI uses a lot of energy which leads to climate change and a increase in greenhouse gases. It also produces electronic waste harming our nature. Another thing is that is also uses water , which makes it difficult for the areas where water is scarce. AI also helps in solving problems but to make it more sustainable , renewable energy and eco-friendly options should be used.

    1. Would it be possible that AI could help in figuring out a solution to the sustainability problem? Is there a perfect balance in how much or how little AI is utilized to ensure sustainability?

      1. Yes, I think that AI can find a solution to it and make it more balanced and civilized with the help us us utilizing it in such a way that we can sustain AI and avoid greenhouse effect in the world today, so if we want to see the world in at least 2030 from now.
        So, the perspective that I am trying to bring out is that for AI to be sustainable, then we have to utilize it.
        Thanks

    2. I don't get how the using of AI produces electronic waste. Also, using energy doesn't directly lead to global warming if demands is not too strong. It's a problem only if energy production tools aren't enough.

  • Al has both advantages and disadvantages. One of its major advantages is its ability to solve complex problems within minutes. On the other hand, a major disadvantage is that it consumes a significant amount of electricity, which is harmful to the environment. As a result, it can lead to various challenges in our daily lives. I think Al have many disadvantages, So I thinking that Al is not most sustainable.

  • I scored 8/8 on the quiz. Some of the facts surprised me as I knew AI wasn't sustainable but you so realise how big of an impact AI can have on are environment.
    Some aspects of AI are useful such as being able to help to improve pieces of writing you have and give you suggestions on what to do but we still have a long way to go to reduce the negative impacts of AI and improve the sustainability of AI.

    1. What do you think is the most surprising environmental impact of AI?

  • The lesson taught me about some of the environmental impacts of AI. I knew that AI probably wasn't the most sustainable but I never knew any facts.
    One of the facts that surprised me the most was the use of 27 litres of water to cool AI systems that run in data centres. This was surprising as I thought it would be less.
    Another fact that surprised me was The amount of carbon emissions released by AI systems that are being trained. Training one AI system can release over 295,000 kilograms of carbon dioxide, which is almost 5 times the amount of which a car produces or pumps out in its lifetime. For some reason I thought it would be less. Before the lesson I didn't even realise how much carbon dioxide is released when training and AI system.

    1. Did the lesson change your opinion on AI? If so, how?

      1. Yes it did because I thought AI was good now I see that AI is terrible because it’s hurting the world more than humans and the world is really good because if we keep hurting the world it might disappear.

  • I scored an amazing 8 out of 8 and in the quiz I was surprised to see how unsustainable it is to use AI. For example a single google search uses 0.3 watt hours of electricity that is like powering a digital alarm clock for one hour, so already that is creating a considerable amount of harm to the planet. The average person makes 3 to 4 google searches a day and there is about 8 million people in the world so the environment will be bombarded with CO2 emissions every day affecting the environment and do you know what this is going to become? Over 1 million tons of waste admitted into the air ! So until we know how to use AI sustainably we shouldn't use it at all to potentially causing unalterable damage because remember we have no Planet B yet !

    1. How do you think we can balance the benefits of AI with the need to protect the environment?

  • I think AI is not sustainable because of it harming future generations by using a lot of energy (greenhouse gas) that could be used for other, more important things, e.g. for healthcare or in industries to support our economy. Today, we learned that AI causes millions of tons of electronic waste, which was really surprising to me. Since AI relies heavily on data centers, we can say that the servers need a lot of water to prevent overheating, meaning that AI indirectly consumes a significant amount of water, which is not good for the environment as well. The amont of energy used to analyse one prompt is extremely high. These points make me think about AI being a chance or a danger for our future as well as if AI is really necessary in all of the fields it is used in.

    1. I agree with some of your comments. However, we can also use the energy produced by data centers to warm the water that is used and therefore recycle the energy. Did you know the Paris Olympics pool was warmed by servers at a nearby data center?

  • I liked this because it shows how much I know and don’t know and shows the answers if I get them wrong so I really liked it but I only got 5 out of 8

  • AI is not good for the environment because
    People were ever you go are on there phones or devices and I believe robots could possibly take over one day however it is good because we can do our homework .

  • I think ai isn't that sustainable because its producing lots of electricity which is really bad but it is a bit sustainable because its really fast and doing its job. Yet it watches us and can hack us or even give us a virus on devices which to me is quite scary thats why u don't use ai i don’t want to get hacked and im sure no one else does.

  • Hello!! I scored a 7/8 and the test itself changed the way that I view the sustainability of artificial intelligence. In my opinion, I do not believe that AI is sustainable enough yet. I learned that these AI data centers are not only very expensive to make, but are very costly and require lots of resources to maintain and keep well operated. Lots of water is needed just to cool down the very hot environment and the electricity it requires in the long run is not be beneficial to the environment. I do feel like in the future we will figure out a way to make it much more sustainable and eco friendly but at this moment in time, I do not believe that is the case.
    Thank you.

  • In my opinion, AI is a very useful feature in our everyday life.
    It is good for Ideas and food recipes, for example: I have a test coming up and AI is able to give me quizzes as revision.

    1. What is the difference between AI and a regular internet search?

  • I scored 8/8 and I agree with fact that AI is not yet sustainable because according to the quiz, just to train one AI robot produces 5 times more green house gases than cars and right know people are trying to reduce gases produced by cars by creating electric cars but here comes AI adding to the problem! So imagine using tons of AI machines what do you think by 2030 the world would be like? Since people want AI to still be in use, they are looking for ways to make AI sustainable. But which side are you on? Make it sustainable or get rid of it. I am on the side to get rid of it.

  • It was easy for me because we learnt some of it in are class and it was very interesting as well as fun.

  • AI is a powerful tool for the earth, but it produces green-house gases and that is not good. If we are going to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide we have to take responsibility for the earth and stop global warming and climate change

  • I think ai should be sustainable for some people because they have different reasons to use it because of different causes but I also think that only doctors and scientists should get to use it the most doctors because many of the devices that they use to check the patients are mostly powered by ai and scientist should too because they need to be checking in on the weather mostly to see if there is going to be something like a hurricane and a tornado

  • I think AI is good and bad it’s good because it is faster than a human and can help people learn and I think it’s bad because it’s not sustainable and it could take over most of the world plus it can’t tell what people are feeling and that is terrible because people need to let out their emotions.

  • I really learned so much about AI such as one google picture can use the same electricity as a phone to 50%.I did not know that.

  • I do not agree that ai is sustainable because you will need 27 kg of water it wasting water in the summer

  • I already did this in my class so I know most of the questions it was fun but confusing when I did not know the answer

  • AI can be Good But there are negatives because in just a few years AI could be a teacher for all students.There is one thing that AI they can not understand our feelings. This was agreed by class

    1. How would you feel if you were taught by AI and not by a human teacher?

      1. I would like to answer this question. If I were taught by AI instead of a human teacher, I would have mixed feelings cause on one side ai could be helpful because it explain things in many ways, it will be available anytime and also can adapt to my learning speed, it will also be interactive and fun and gives quick answer. But on the other side, I would miss the emotional connection and understanding that only a human can give. A teacher will notice when I’m struggling, encourage me, and share real life stories to make lessons more meaningful but Ai don’t know these things. Ai knows a lot but it can’t replace the care and support of a human teacher.
        Thank you :)

      2. If i were taught by Ai instead of a human teacher, i would feel that Ai would help me in many ways such as always be available, make learning fun, and providing quick answers. On other hand, it might not understand my emotions, my ability to creatively or my unique skills. In addition, AI can replace our thinking, creativity and emotions.

  • During the lesson I learnt that it takes 27 litres to cold down a AI machine everyday.We thought that it takes 23 or 17 litres to cool down an AI machine

    1. Did this surprise you? If so, why?

  • I predict that Artificial intelligence is not sustainable because it can harm the world a sustainable I is when that product or thing is not affecting the earth. AI cause over 2,ooo carbon dioxide then cars

  • I got 5 out of 8. I think I did poorly, and I am not happy with what I got. I think AI is sustainable because it has the ability to maintain existence of technology

  • I was shocked by the amount of carbon emitted into the atmosphere, 285k is an utterly monstrous amount within that short span of time, I hope it wont increase anytime soon because that would be another negative factor added onto the environment.

  • In my opinion AI is neither good nor bad. How it is put to use is what determines the outcome. It has brought tremendous improvement in every area of life like music, movies, script writing, education etc. however it has also brought about mental laziness. People practically can not do anything without asking AI to do it. The outcome is lower human intelligent development and this is not good fore the younger generation.
    Thank you!!!

    1. Hi skillful_plum, can you think of ways to use AI to help with developing human intelligence?

  • AI is not so sustainable cause for us to be living in a world with technology is good but with an advantage there is a disadvantage so in some fields of life we see AI helping us with things we did not expect like in drugs but if we keep living in a world wit AI it can cause the depletion of things like the ozone layer which cause cansa is wrong an in Africa we com plane about heat so if the ozone is to fall us here we will surfer from heat THANK YOU

  • My own opinion tells me that, AI will not be sustainable for a long time, and by the looks of it, I think that the whole world might just turn into a radio-active waste land.
    What I heard about AI using a high amount of energy just to send one E-mail per week makes it more difficult to sustain AI which might lead hazardous chemicals called the CFC's(CluoroFloroCarbons) which leads to the depletion to the ozone layer causing UV(UltraViolet rays).
    So, in conclusion, I would try to sustain AI as much as others would like to the same.
    Thanks

  • I think that AI is mostly watched by a bad side. Of course there can be sustainability problems if people which don’t need it that much use it a lot. Then the data which is needed to process is very high. But for some jobs or institutions it can be very helpful and can cause a big change in future which can make the word a better place to live. So the chances of AI should be focused, but the problems should not be forgotten.

    1. How do you think we can encourage the responsible use of AI?

  • I think AI is a great aid for students and generell people in need. But it should Not be used for the wrong purposes. For example asking AI for creating an opinion of something. Because AI cannot express the opinion or the feeling for you. AI is also a big warte of energy and is bad for the climat. But in the future AI can improve, thus also the Reduction of Energy.

  • I personally think AI has both advantages and disadvantages. On one hand AI can be used effectively by people to help them in daily struggles or tasks but also by helping people within their job such as doctors to diagnose someone’s condition and how to efficiently treat them. It can also help to come up with solutions for climate change or other crises. As controversial as it sounds, AI also damages our planet.
    By using a huge amount of energy and electricity it isn’t very sustainable. Though it helps many people it also is damaging. I think people should think about if the use of AI is worth the damage it does.

  • I agree with both AI can be great for different situation's but at the same time its bad for the environment with the amount of carbon dioxide it uses

  • As we are using AI in performing our duties in different field of life, we should at same time see that what this AI is taking from the planet is way much bigger than what we claim to be receiving from it, there I’m on the ground that AI is not very sustainable even in the quiz we can see that this same AI uses tones of water just to cool down when we use it and at same time using millions of kilo-watts of electricity.
    Now if we to compare and contrast, we will see that we are actually loosing a lot and gaining few in return, why I said this is because, AI is helping us in making our works easier and faster is no doubt but we can still do without them of course we’ve been doing before they came into existence, they are helping farmers in many ways is not doubt but at same time we should remember that farmers have been sour in their field before the invention of AI and same thing applies in many other areas of life.
    We can’t trade easy life for an irreversible damages to our planet which AI causes, just imagine if we continue in the usage of AI, time shall com when we will be left with nothing and continuing means making the world a less sustainable place for us all.
    THANK YOU

  • AI is not sustainable in future because it is consuming more energy sources and e wastes. And it's creating more pollution from the AI cars,water consuming and creating a AI model will produce a huge electronic wastes that affect our nature and they are using AI hardwares that are created by mining more elements that affects our environment.

    To reduce the impact of AI that are causing environmental pollution:

    The creaters can try to use a small tech materials items instead of using huge models and try to reduce pollution can be helpful for AI to be sustainable.

  • AI is quite unsustainable. Because an AI on daily basis, needs a lot of energy to provide us the solutions of our problems and giving us informations about this and that. The high frequency that spreads while an AI uses the energy, Becomes hard for some of few animals to take.The wave hurts their brain so thus is bad for their lives.
    Also there are a lot disadvantages or unsustainable of AI.
    Like:-
    Training and running AI models require significant computational power, leading to high energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions.
    The production of hardware for AI systems relies on the extraction of rare earth materials, which can have negative environmental and social consequences.
    The rapid pace of technological advancement in AI
    is leading to a high turnover of hardware, contributing to the growing problem of electronic waste.

    1. Interesting perspective, centered_banana -- I'm very intrigued by your assertion that high-frequency waves from AI are harming animals. What is your evidence for that?

      1. While establishing AI we need more instruments like satellite microwave to communicate.
        Those microwaves can interact with a bird's navigation system, mating ritual, eating habit,etc.
        There are some articles that relate to the facts written above.So thus we can say that animals suffer a lot from the electromagnetic radiation and high frequency waves.

  • I think AI is not sustainable as its carbon admission rate for just feeding the one platform knowledge is 5x the amount of an average cars life span . With that amount of green house gases it could become the one of the worlds biggest contributors to the health and the temperature of our planet . Even so the main problem with AI is its great amount of usage every day with a humongous group of people asking questions , seeing if AI will make a time table for them but with all those answers and calendars being made the more co2 is being released into the atmosphere .

  • I think AI is sustainable because for example you ask it to write a poem with similes , it will give you an amazing poem like nobody's done before and did you know that AI robots can possibly take over the world I know that's terrible, but with the right level of security measures this can be prevented/controlled.

  • I think that AI is not yet sustainable because it leaves a lot of waste. By 2030, AI will have produced millions of tons of waste and we cannot have this happening to our planet. 285,000 kg of carbon dioxide waste will have been created (that is five times as much as a car). It does so much more damaging then helping and we already have a lot of problems with climate change and AI doesn't help sort it. It clearly isn't that sustainable as it can heat up and the 27 literes (which should be going to the places in the world that need it) are used to cool it down. It might stop us cutting trees for paper but instead it makes us take up huge amounts of country land for data centres. We should take more care in what AI does to the planet.

  • I think that AI is not yet sustainable because it leaves a lot of waste. By 2030, AI will have produced millions of tons of waste and we cannot have this happening to our planet. 285,000 kg of carbon dioxide waste will have been created (that is five times as much as a car). It does so much more damaging then helping and we already have a lot of problems with climate change and AI doesn't help sort it. It clearly isn't that sustainable as it can heat up and the 27 literes (which should be going to the places in the world that need it) are used to cool it down. It might stop us cutting trees for paper but instead it makes us take up huge amounts of country land for data centres. We should take more care in what AI does to the planet.

  • In my opinion, it depends on what you use the AI for if it is sustainable or not. AI can be sustainable because if you are using it for educational purposes and also school, then it will be sustainable because it can give you facts, statistics, and assistance to help you with school and education. But, on the other hand, AI can not be sustainable because as the quiz states, AI consumes and uses a lot of energy which in result can cause harm and also chaos. In conclusion, my opinion on if AI is sustainable or not is that it can or cannot be sustainable is that it depends on what you are using the AI for.

  • I think AI is sustainable and unsustainable at the same time. For example training large AI models produce more carbon than five cars in their entire life which is a lot, but at the same time AI helps farmers with their plants which makes the farmers more efficiently and they produce more crops or it helps scientists to create simulations, to predict natural disasters or to process a lot of data.
    So, in my opinion I think that just some people should be allowed to use the AI so the pollution will be reduced.

  • I think that AI is sustainable as it operates like a human being and if you ask a question about anything it can give a good answer. It helps people to perform the tasks and make work easier.

  • I scored a great 8/7 which is great because I thought i was going to get 4/8 but I think I did great

  • I do not believe that AI is sustainable because, according to the the quiz AI is in reality very wasteful. If you sent one email per week, you alone would use 27 liters of water. It causes pollution; it causes irreversible damages and unsafe environments for humans and animals to inhabit. On the other hand, AI reduces bureaucracy ( paperwork and administrations, which are jobs usually carried out by humans) saves time and helps its users to find out things with a more efficient alternative to teaching. Yet AI lacks emotion and will absorb creativity and leisure if it continues like this. This brings me back to my opinion, AI is not sustainable. If we all keep using AI it will produce more and more greenhouse gases, neglecting our Earth; creating an imbalance between energy and lives.

  • I think it is not that sustainable because of the fact that if everyone uses AI at the same time It will waste so much water (probably millions of gallons) when it can be used to plant at least 90 trees in 1 day(that can probably last them a lifetime). But it really depends on how you are using it for example if you are a parent (planning schedules) you would rather use it for a job like a forest ranger for drones tracking people cutting down trees,finding lost people and/or protecting the environment.You would rather go to google (Can make a digital clock work for around 1hr)
    to find an image which only wastes 0.3 watt hours rather than waste 6 watthours (Can make a digital clock work for around 20hrs)from using chatgpt or something like that.

  • I do not completely agree with the fact that AI is sustainable and that it is significant to the work of the world.I think this because whilst millions of people have no clean water at all in their country, AI itself uses millions of gallons of evaporated water nearly every day. One AI robot, ChatGPT, uses about 500 millilitres of water for every 5 to 50 prompts. Not just water but especially electricity. , AI and cryptocurrencies consume around 460 terawatt-hours of electricity and what is most shocking is that it is just under 2% of the global electricity demand. As well as that, AI causes pollution; Its metals which are mined from underground, can lead to soil erosion and environmental changes. Many electronics are not properly recycled, leading to land fill waste which can cause further and worse water pollution. Additionally, AI will take jobs of those who are less fortunate, such as: bankers, advanced coders, law clerks, lawyers, stock market analysts, data analysts and many more important jobs which are currently being done by human hands. To conclude, AI is not sustainable because of the many reasons listed above and many more such and the use of factories for making the computers etc. Thank you for reading this and bye for now.

  • In my opinion, AI is not sustainable. AI is known as efficient and prompt for several occasions, but at what cost? According to the quiz, AI uses 2.9 watt hours of electricity, which is 10x the amount that google uses per search. In addition, AI releases an abundant amount of carbon dioxide, leads to electronic waste, and also requires plenty of energy. Though AI is popular, I wonder if people ever think about the consequences of using AI and the process of making AI. According to the provided quiz, training ONE AI model releases 285,000 kg of carbon dioxide, which is more than what a car releases in its lifetime. Furthermore, do people ever think of the amount of energy used by AI for just a simple task? AI uses an equivalent amount of energy that a smartphone requires to reach the battery percentage of 50% just to generate an image, showing how energy is often wasted for a simple task. In conclusion, AI is not sustainable, people often do not think about the consequences of the production and usage of AI, leading to the slow destruction of our environment and planet.

  • I don't think AI is sustainable.according to the passage AI need much electricity to charge a phone to ( 50 percent) and it causes damage to our planet.

  • I think AI is unsustainable because millions of tons of water is wasted by AI

    1. Can you explain how that happens?

  • I think that ai is good as it helps me with my homework and helps me with school work I do not think that is is harmfall to the environment as its on a computer and I will not throw out my computer so it wont be litter so it does not hurt the environment.

    1. Are there other ways AI could harm the environment that aren't linked directly to your own computer?

  • In my opinion I think AI is sustainable because you can ask it questions for education or help you with typing up paragraphs for emails. Some may say that it is bad for the environment but at the end of the day, AI prevents the need of paper and that stops a lot of Carbon dioxide being released into the atmosphere making paper in factories and will reduce deforestation. Furthermore, with how fast technology has developed I am almost certain we will have developed technology to reduce the negative impact of AI and lead the advancements to be more eco-friendly.

    1. I don't agree with you. Obviously computer technologies make it possible to use less paper. But we must not forget that it is the field that consumes the most energy in the world every year. We should look at the ratio between what pollutes the most between wasted paper and the use of a computer. Then although i can agree that technologies saves paper, you are wrong when you say that it is AI that saves paper, it is computers. First you use a computer that is already polluting, and then you add energy consumption by using an AI. And i think that with that, we can say that AI is not sustainable at least for today.

  • I do not believe AI is sustainable or at least not in its current form. According to a report, training one AI model can emit nearly five times the lifetime emissions of a car. Yes, it is useful but that does not make it environmentally sustainable. I believe our environment is more valuable than receiving a personalised answer. Maybe if a more environmentally friendly form of AI or something similar is produced in the future it can be sustainable, but, in the current form during an era where we are damaging our environment so badly it is not worth it.

  • I think ai is not sustainable because of the emissions it produces and by 2030 it will be in the millions of emissions of c02 and greenhouse gasses which can lead to damaging the world.So think about this is the world or ai more important i believe the world is more important rather than ai as the knowledge ai gain is from people so if people spread knowledge around the world we wouldnt need ai.

  • I think that AI is not entirely sustainable because it leaves a lot of waste. In the future AI will produced millions of tons of waste and we cannot let this happen to our planet. 285,000 kg of carbon dioxide waste will have been created. It clearly isn't entirely sustainable as it can heat up and the 27 literes of water are used to cool it down. It might stop us cutting trees for paper but instead it makes us take up huge amounts of country land for data centres.

    However it is usefull to students in school as it can help with work and teach them how to do new things like learn to code or something like that.

  • I believe AI may not be as great as it may seem. I think this because just in the last five years, Google has reported their emissions have reached a forty eight percent increase due to the electricity consumption from their AI data centres . I don't think this secures a good future for our environment and humanity overall. Although I believe AI has incredibly positive impacts such as advancements in medical fields and research, by the time we reach the point where we fully develop the world of artificial intelligence, the world will already be falling apart and beyond repair.

  • I think AI can be sustainable sometimes but eventually it could turn on ourselves. People use AI all the time , but eventually one little mistake, one hacking could make everything change. That's why it can be sustainable sometimes

  • I agree with the idea that AI uses extreme amounts of energy and is on its way to causing incredible harm to our environment. However, If we start thinking about how AI can solve the other energy problems of our society we can attempt to minimise the damage and think about how to improve the sustainability of the AI itself. There are already multiple studies showing that AI can solve our renewable energy problems through energy optimisation and smart grid management. I believe that if we are smart about who uses AI and how we can actually improve the current state of the environment and where it's heading.

    1. Interesting perspective - thanks.

  • My class did very well on the quiz, with every student having their say. I learned that AI takes 10 times the energy that google does. AI might be quicker but google has all the information and just gives it to whoever is searching, while AI has to gather the information and formulate answers from data sites like google. The quiz made me aware of the negative effects on the environment, this many people do not think of.

  • I don't think AI I's very sustainable because according to the quiz you need lots of energy and energy is created in many ways but the most common way is fossil fuels and fossil fuels are ruining our planet and making climate change worse and worse. Our time is soon going to end if we don't make a change and I think removing Ai can start stopping all of this. But on the other hand this can be argued because Ai saves people not just time also money. It is helpful for everyone ; it can help people in school like having a free tutor and parents for finding the best discounts and prices for there family. But overall I think Ai is not sustainable.

  • While AI might not be as sustainable as many people think, it is a relatively new technology and like other technologies will definitely improve, and hopefully become more sustainable. AI can do jobs for us and make lives easier. It is clear that such an advanced technology must use lots of energy to be powered.

  • I think AI is sustainable because if you have questions or need help with anything you can ask AI. I know it is bad using it because it destroys the environment but AI is still useful as it can help with things like meanings of words or questions about politics, practically anything.

  • I believe that AI is not yet sustainable in today's world, AI is very useful in the modern world, it can help us with recipes, help humans find cures, help us predict the weather. However, I believe that it is being wasted and not everyone should be allowed to use it. It is statistically proven that if you send one email a week, using AI, it will use over 27 Litres to cool down. AI should not be used to benefit one person, but the world as a whole, AI should be used to find cures, save lives, not just look up recipes. If we use AI to our advantage, we could lower Carbon emissions, while maximising how useful Artificial Intelligence can be.

  • I don’t think AI is sustainable as it realises green houses gases and affects climate change.

  • I scored 8/8 but to be honest it was just my lucky go and I learnt that in life only you are the person who maintain yourself and make yourself satisfied so I think even if ai is useful it actually is not that effective ,pathetic for Mother Nature and it just makes us more dependent which according to me is worst way to live *your* life because everyone has their individual life for themselves to live it their own way and I believe ai snatches that ability from us .Talking about sustainability ai is yet not sustainable at all as the quiz itself says that sustainable is something which does not cause irreversible damage to earth so just want to say nature is our root as it gives grip to us to stand high so “ why are we cutting our roots in Greed of fruits” .

  • AI is not fully sustainable yet, because of its very high energy consumption; contributing to the abiding effects on our dear planet. It is heavily dependent upon natural resources, especially for the energy required to power data centres and their cooling systems which just adds on to climate change. But AI isnt entirely unsustainable, if we find ways to save energy by making it renewable while improving its use, and support climate research we can have a healthier future while continuing to use AI!

  • In my opinion, AI can be used both ways, to destroy or evolve the planet and it at the end comes on to us, human beings as AI can be controlled by after all, only us. So if got in the wrong hands AI can be one of the most dangerous things ever and if used in the way intended, AI can be very beneficial for the society. So to make this balance, some essential protective measures shall be taken to ensure the security of the use of AI making AI used to power large companies and plants harder to access because of strong passwords and complex pattern detecting sensors such as fingerprint and facial detection. One more thing that can be done to reduce the use of AI is to spread the knowledge of the consequences of AI. One suggestion I would like to give would be to conduct quizzes like this more frequently on the web as well as in classes to spread awareness.

  • I don't think that AI is very sustainable. Sure it helps a lot but at who's expense?. Does the world really need AI to write essays and send emails? Were we not doing these things manually before AI came along?. Why will we put our lives at risk to do assignments faster and send fast emails?. How many people in the world are searching for water and here we are wasting it on a machine which we can do without. AI should be limited to fields where it is really needed.

    1. Is there anyone or anything else that would benefit from AI?

  • AI is Sustainable because data generated from it has some truth and you can depend on it.
    Again, AI is currently a solution to a number of academic issues especially for students and teachers I developed regions. This shows that it has taken a step and wining trust from people is a mileage towards standing for future.

    1. You mention the word depend - do you think this could become harmful?

  • I think that AI is not sustainable. It is not good for maintaining natural assets and uses too many resources to be as accurate and precise as possible. It’s not only destroying nature and everything that nature provides, it also destroys us humans, our knowledge and skills, abilities and our imagination. One day we will be no longer able to rely ond our own knowledge if we use artificial intelligence for everything and we will always be looking for someone else to help us or do something for us. We will become disabled and our brain will stop thinking the way it was created for. We need to be aware that AI is destroying our Earth, understand that we are also on this Earth and that it is also destroying us.

    1. You make some powerful statements @generous_goat! Do you think that AI could ever be used to solve climate-related issues or have any positive impact on the environment? Or is it wholly negative?

      1. I think that humans brain is advanced and intelligent enough to solve climate problems. We are in touch with reality, not some computer… If we could start global warming, there must be a way for us to end it.

      2. So according me AI can help us a lot to solve climate and environmental related issues and not only has a negative impact on nature but also a better side .according to my research AI is being used to track deforestation through satellite AI .AI is being used to collect the data for plastic waste and the plastic waste itself from sea shores and different water bodies .AI is also used to prevent natural disasters which save many lives and so as per my point of view AI is not wholly negative .

  • I think Artificial intelligence isn't sustainable as there's something called "e-waste" that contains dangerous chemicals that's created due to AI technology.
    According to Google, E-waste accommodates, lead (a chemical in the lot of chemicals e-waste contains), it contains mercury, And cadmium which causes endangerment to humanity. As it's very bad for health, and for the environment. In contrast to this information, I think we can keep that from becoming a larger problem by decreasing the use of AI technology. For example, not using it to ask unnecessary questions, make the use of AI less in houses/phones, apps like chatgpt should have message limits so that no one overuses it, etc..

  • This quiz told us about the other side of AI. In this world we feel by using AI we are developing but do not see the other side of AI which is the heavy use of resources . We came to know that a single search by using AI can change are 50% of phone also running this technology needs a lot of important resources of the world like water. At last we became aware about using AI wisely or can cause distruction to the earth.

  • According to me AI is not sustainable as it can cause damage to our environment easily through many ways such as training AI models takes mucch of electricity and this causes to use of more energy.

  • I’ve got 6 out of 8 answers correct. Actually, I’ve always been aware of AI and the benefits and risks that this entails. For some reason, I’ve never thought about how artificial intelligence affect our planet. I always focus the bad part on privacy or plagiarism issues but in fact there is something else. It is worrying how much energy it consumes to ask a simple question to any browser or just send a simple email, things that we do in our daily life.

    On the other hand, digital documents for example save us to use so much paper, because producing it we kill millions of trees.

    But is it really worth it? Well, I don’t think so. Meanwhile we are improving in one part of this dilemma we are getting worse in the other. In the end, we aren’t making progress.

  • In my presepective,AI has contributed a lot to make this world develop from helping people to develop their skills to help humans initiate their work more faster and efficiently. But , AI can not be declared as fully sustainable because though we have witnessed progress but we continue to witness it's dangerous side effects on our planet. Using AI is not wrong but using it unnecessarily causes harm to each and everyone.

  • I think that ai is sustainable because its not doing too much damage to the environment and I think by the end of 2030 people will be able to plant more trees to out match the ai's co2 and millions of electronic waste

  • In my opinion ai isn't as sustainable for the planet to survive for way more centuries I surprisingly got 8 out of 8 and I did learn that more way more of robots is to come which they are not sustainable hopefully scientists will Make them more sustainable and help the planet to grow more greener as right now we aren't really developing any greenery even though some of us want to do it. I also want to say I surprisingly realised of how much litres AI is actually using for the world this is Really affectionate and we should stop this before the world dies Although it is really helpful it is also really really really damaging the planet a lot and this is not good for it and it can help a lot for scientists doctors and others but we should also use the way less as this is over damaging It Yes it helps another in responses and it is exactly like a multi tasker but it is causing the world To be damaged and look like a brown piece of material let's please help the world and I am a school council so I do what is right and best Let's also stop pollution

  • I got 8 out of 8,
    I learnt it takes more energy to generate one AI picture than charge a smartphone to 50%. This taught me that AI production consumes more energy and gas emissions of greenhouse in comparison with the smartphone.
    I also learnt that Data centers that use powerful computer consume 27 liters of water to stop it from overheating.
    I believe AI has limited adaptabilities compared to the smartphone operated by humans.
    AI is also prone to more security risk by both the users and the developers.
    Thank you

  • Hello!!
    In my opinion, I believe that AI is not sustainable whatsoever as it has a large and growing carbon footprint, which is not good for the planet at all. Additionally, training large AI models and running AI operations require huge power and electricity usage,
    along with carbon emissions. AI is creating a numerous amount of problems that can impact our world. Climate change is a colossal issue and unless you want climate change to become even worse, we must find something else to do with AI to create a safer and healthier planet. Sustainability is a fundamental part of the earth that we must protect in order to stay alive. And if AI is causing this traumatising issue, then we must do something to prevent this from happening and have a good ecosystem. Overall, I strongly believe that AI is absolutely not sustainable because they create a lot of carbon footprint putting our lives at stake.
    Thank you for reading my opinion, I hope you enjoyed!!

  • Before taking the quiz I was not as knowledgable about whether AI is sustainable or not but after taking the quiz I gained a new light to the topic making me realize the just how unsustainable AI could be like for example the electronic waste that AI produces which comes out to be millions of tonnes that AI produce which is astonishing to think about but this does not mean that we cannot improve on the sustainability of AI as time goes by new information and ways to make AI more sustainable will arise making AI a more sustainable recourse available to everyone.

  • I think artificial intelligence is really useful for our daily lives; however, I don't think it is sustainable. AI uses a lot of electricity, more than we could have imagined. Besides, it produces a lot of carbon emissions. We might need to stop a minute and think about how much irreversible damage we are causing by just asking AI to do any task, helping you in a research, or generating an image.
    I think AI should be more sustainable and we should try to use it as less as possible. In contrast, I also think AI can improve the community if it is used responsibly, for example, as doctors use it to diagnose patients.

  • I in my opinion AI is not very sustainable yet because of all the emission of carbon and wastage of energy that AI creates that would have been used to create something better. But AI has helps us a lot of different ways from education to problem solving and ideas coming from different perspectives.
    But it also doesn't change the facts that AI creates more problem, and if we keep using AI with out out trying to perfect or better it, we would be doing more harm than good to our planet.

  • "How sustainable is AI?", a question whose answer varies depending on what the person wishes to see. AI can be sustainable, according to California Miramar University, it's helped with healthcare advancements like scanning patient records and even interpreting tests results more accurately, transformed education by creating personalized learning experiences, and it could even predict natural disasters that will allow us to take more precautions. However, I believe that AI isn't as sustainable as we say. It is possible for AI to still misdiagnose a patient, AI can't ensure that a student WILL learn better, AI can mistake natural disasters or even overlook them because AI isn't perfect. It's STILL learning and evolving and along its journey it puts our planet at risk. AI data centers release pollution yearly that directly add onto global warming but it's not just that, the UN Environment Programme has stated that AI servers housed by data centers not only produce tons of electronic waste but also consume large amounts of clean fresh water. So it brings me great sorrow to say that there are over 2 billion people who lack access to clean water (The World Health Organization). This brings me back to my statement, AI is not sustainable for our planet but it's also not entirely sustainable for us, in the long run, by calling this destruction "progress" we are not only failing our planet and nature but also ourselves.

    1. Great comment open_ocean! Can you think of anything we could do to reduce the potential risk for your environment when using AI?

      1. Absolutely! If we truly wish to keep both our sustainable planet and Artificial Intelligence (AI), possible solutions to reduce the potential risk for our environment when using AI could be the collaboration between AI developers and environmental scientists. This collaboration could result in a new kind of AI, one that doesn't release so much emissions yearly, AI that runs on renewable energy. After some searching, I found out that the Yale School of the Environment also believes that transitioning to renewable energy sources for AI, like wind or solar, could reduce the negative effects it has on our planet like pollution. Besides air pollution, AI also produces a lot of e-waste (electronic equipment waste) and by 2030 it could result in 5 million metric tons of it(MIT Technology Review). So another solution for having a more sustainable combination of our environment and AI is to reuse and recondition obsolete hardware components. If we extend the life-span of these pieces, not only will we have less e-waste but we can also re-purpose the old parts to create something entirely new and unique!

  • AI can be very usefull because ai is able to get lots of information from lots of different resources, and summarise it for people in a really easy way. so if you want information quickly then you can use ai . But AI is using lots of energy from the world and the water. this can be very bad for the world. somone needs to find a more sustainable way to help the world use ai. Just use AI when you NEED it, not all the time. thank you

  • I think AI is not sustainable as it produces lots of electrical waste which pollutes and the mining and production of metal used in AI hardware can pollute and contaminate water and soil. It also produces greenhouse emissions. However it can be sustainable in some ways as it can lack the use of paper which means less deforestation. But overall I think AI is not sustainable.

  • AI faces sustainability challenges due to high energy consumption,resource use, and carbon emissions. As AI pioneer Timnit Gebru noted,“The environmental costs of AI are hidden behind the promise of innovation,” emphasizing the need to balance innovation with sustainable practices.

  • Although AI is helping people find solutions to climate change there’s no hiding it’s contributing to the problem. I believe it’s a waste of emissions. Training just one AI model reduces 285 thousand kilograms of carbon dioxide which is almost 5x the amount of a car in its lifetime.

  • I think ai is not sustainable as we don’t even know who got all this information it could be all a lie we don’t even know

  • I think that ai is good as in the future (hopefully in the next 2 years) it will replace the president of america or the king or england. How everI thnk that it should replace Trump first as I dont like him much.

    1. Hi lively_bat. You have some strong opinions here! Could you explain them using facts and examples from the news to back up your points?

  • I agree because AI is being used to save lives by analyzing weather patterns and predicting natural disasters.
    AI can also be used in inventing new machines or ways of manufacturing that decrease CO2 emissions. So I agree that AI can be sustainable, but creating new AI models or updating them uses a lot of energy. But if by 2030 all international powerplants are sustainable (for example, solar panels, hydropower, and wind power), it will decrease our emissions from AI models a lot. I see we should continue to use AI to develop our economy to perfection.

  • In my opinion, AI is something not only creative and useful, but also something really important as we're starting to see it everywhere we look.
    As it's beggining to be so usual, we have to make its production way more sustainable so we don't affect the enviroment in a negative way and wer can keep using it as much as we want.

  • I believe that AI is going to be sustainable soon because of the great impact it is having on our society and the great use we are making of it, and since we are so environmentally conscious it is something that I believe they want to implement as soon as possible

  • I think with these quizz we can learn more about AI and raise awareness about sustainability due to it is damage for the enviroment and it is interesting this kind of information about the impact of climate change.

  • I´ts very curious how AI can contribute to the pollution even when it is helping to climate change. With this quiz you realize many facts that you could not imagine and that´s why i think this quiz is so useful.

  • It was such an interesting quiz!! I learnt a lot of new things, it is incredible the amount of water AI needs to work. This quiz will help me on making the right decisions in the future as climate change is a big issue we have to deal with as soon as posible :)

  • AI is being developed in a way which isn`t very sustainable nowadayas however , this will change in a close future , making it more efficient and sustainable so that greenhouse emissios disapear or at least get lower.
    A part from that , in my opinion the AI is going to take a very big step forward giving rise to a very complex and developed systems that will help us in the different habits of our daily life

  • I think that AI would a deep and hard problem in a near future, because the wastes of AI are like ten times more perjudicial than the wastes of technology. I think that the use of AI is not sustainable yet. We need to change mostly everything to become the use of AI sustainable. One thing to consider, is that sending a simple e-mail of about just 100 words could led to a huge waste of water that could affect millions of people and, in my opininion, is a dumb waste.

  • I don’t believe AI is very sustainable because, as the quiz mentioned, it consumes a lot of electricity and causes lasting harm to our planet. While it has the potential to develop solutions to tackle issues like climate change and deforestation, this doesn’t necessarily make it sustainable. If we continue expanding AI and allowing it to grow bigger each year, the world will become even less sustainable. This would prevent the planet from reaching its true potential for a healthier future.

  • AI is sustainable because of its ability to work with out complaining which is one of the main problems of human beings, mustlly when the work is big but an AI can do that work as long as the ability and the strength of the AI can carry and do not forget that AI can help you advance your data privacy and lastly it helps to reduces the mistakes we make while typing, but as we all know that every thing that has an advantage has a disadvantage and i think that why AI should not be sustained is because i creates job losses which is not helpful for humans. secondly it promotes the percentage of laziness in this modern time which means it not sustainable and good for humans must especially for us the young ones that are growing. Thank you

  • In my opinion, AI is not environmentaly friendly yet. Maybe in some years it would be but, nowadays, taking into acount all time we use it and the damage it produce, we need to look for a solution to make it be less polluting. This quiz made me realize how much a computer can contaminate if just comparing it with a car is alredy much more.

  • AI is not very sustainable because we use it only to look for answers that sometimes you can ask in class or relatives and it is not necessary to use AI, and AI is not sustainable because it uses millions and millions of litres of water every day so it is not sustainable and we help to sustain the planet for more years because at this rate we are destroying it.

    1. I agree with a part of your comment but AI is not limited to irrelevant searches. AI is also a major step forward wich will help us in the search for medicines, technological solutions but also and above all in the research that will make it possible to provide a solution to global warming through technical solutions

  • for me AI is sustainable in some parts like for example coming to educational part it is very sustainable and in some office works and researches which can save us time and cracking of brains and in the other hand it is not sustainable through the destruction of the ozone layer and climate change .

  • According to the quiz, AI is not sustainable because it damages the Earth by wasting water, energy and electricity.

    It wastes electricity. For example, a single search on Google takes 0.3 watt-hours of electricity furthermore this wastes a lot of electricity. Moreover, it is reported that AI will make millions of tons of wasted electricity.

    It wastes energy. For example, training AI releases over 285,000 kilograms of carbon dioxide and this gas is from the Green House gases. These types of gases pollute the air and cause diseases to humans. when also AI makes images, it wastes a lot and a lot of energy.

    It wastes water. For example, data centers that run AI systems use powerful computers that can overheat. Water stops this from happening by cooling. When you write an email using AI every week, 27 liters must be used to cool the overheat.

    To conclude, I took 5\8 in the quiz, and I gained a lot of information.

    Thank you.

    1. That's a really interesting point! I also believe that AI is not very sustainable and we shouldn't let it take our jobs and leave us growing more and more lazy and unhealthy, which will also then lead to global warming as the demand for food grows higher.

      Thank you for all those incredible facts!

  • With this quiz,I was put in too think deeply the reality of the consumption of ai and how this technology could be one of the prinsipal causes of our increasing risk of climate change

  • I DONT THINK AI IS SUSTANIBL BECAUSE HUMANS CAN DIO STUFF THEY SHOULDNT ANd ai isnt good icase it starts taking over everything so people cant earn money etc

  • I do not think AI is sustainable as it takes a lot up a lot of energy and is destroying the planet, it enables laziness because not many people want to work hard or even learn and the use of AI is the reason why the education system cannot detect a humans actual learning

  • It takes to much water to cool systems 27litres and it takes more carbon dioxide than a cars lifetime and it is more than a lot of electricity to just train one model and uses as much electric to charge a phone to 50% and is making loads of waste and is not sustainable to keep our planet healthy.

  • I agree with both types but one thing I really want to talk about is that AI can make mistakes everybody uses AI without any care for the world and the damage is doing to the world and sometimes AI makes mistakes a lot of times actually and people end up believing it and it's just not right.Using using AI has benefits and negatives and sometimes AI isn't even right people just believe AI and rely on it to do everything for them and it isn't right because those people need to learn how to do things themselves and learn how to step up and be their own person instead of just using AI for everything. For me it is really concerned that everybody believes everything that they get from the internet from other people and from AI because it does things can have a big impact on you later and it's not always a good one sometimes those types of impact are bad and people just they just go along with it and they don't ever find out the truth and they don't ever find out what AI is doing to them. They just think AI is okay to use that it is sustainable but it is not sustainable, we can't keep living like this we can't we can't keep relying on AI to do everything for us because AI it does damage to the planet but they are also some good things but not quite a lot. We have been born into this world and I feel it is all our duty to look after our planet. AI is not sustainable not yet and if we keep on using AI that will be not just hundreds or thousands of waste but millions and also AI uses so so so so so much energy.

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    1. That's an interesting point. Do you think AI could ever be sustainable?

      1. Hi Molly thank used for replying to my comments in reply to your question I think that yes AI could be sustainable with help from the people of the planet we just need a bit of hope that AI can be sustainable and figure out a way that we could use AI without causing damage to the planet thanks again for replying to my comments your support means the world to me😊🥹

      2. Hi Molly thank used for replying to my comments in reply to your question I think that yes AI could be sustainable with help from the people of the planet we just need a bit of hope that AI can be sustainable and figure out a way that we could use AI without causing damage to the planet thanks again for replying to my comments your support means the world to me😊🥹

  • Although AI is a very useful and powerful tool that was originally created to assist people, we have to also take into consideration the sustainability. Yes, AI is helping to improve the everyday lives of multiple people, but with sustainability comes more progress with this. One question asked to AI is already wasting 2.9 watt-hours of electricity, imagine the damage that could cause if everyone asked AI a question every day. This not only can produce greenhouse gases and carbon dioxide, but if it continues, future generations will have to suffer the consequences of what we as a group have caused. It is no doubt in the world that if used correctly, AI is an impressive and influential instrument. However, we have to think ahead about the different outcomes that AI can cause. As I mentioned earlier, this can cause multiple negative consequences that not only we will have to suffer, but so will multiple other generations that come after us.

  • I think AI is sustainable for everything because it helps you find out more and growths your knowledge. It also helps for things you don't know.It helps you will maybe home work and gives you a better understanding of it.

  • Before doing this quiz, I thought that I knew a lot of things about AI, but I have realized is not like that.
    But from my point of view, AI have some bad things and some good things.
    But in that quiz you have written only bad things.

  • There are two ways to think about this. First of all, why AI isn’t sustainable. Well, AI isn’t sustainable because it produces electronic waste, they are large consumers of water, which are becoming scarce in many places. Additionally, sustainability should be our top priority so that we can make the world a better place. Alternatively, AI has huge benefits: it can detect patterns in data, such as anomalies and similarities, and use historic knowledge to accurately predict future outcomes. With this, we can predict what will happen to our environment in the future and be certain that our ecosystem is healthy and living. However, AI is not doing this to its best at the moment (though it will be soon), so it is still unsustainable. Therefore, we need to stop how much electric waste AI produces and maybe set a time limit on how much we use AI. Instead, we could also manufacture AI using green energy. There are many solutions and we just need to use them. Nevertheless, AI still is not sustainable at the moment.

    1. Interesting points humble_elderberry. You say that AI is not doing this to its best at the moment (though it will be soon). What are some of things that would need to change for AI to be at its best?

  • i think AI can help for sustainability because we can ask some questions to how to take more care of the planet and have a more sustainable life

    1. Hopeful_cricket you say that AI can help from the standpoint of being able to ask some questions to how to take more care of the planet and have a more sustainable life. But what do you think about the resources that are required to run AI in the first place?

  • My score is 6 out of 8. I've learnt that one research is equivalent to charge a phone at 50%. I've understood that it wasn't substainable yet.

    1. Interesting practical_earth. What are some things that could make AI more sustainable based on what you learned?

  • AI is good because it can find answers when you are struggling or needing help on something . But if you use AI everyday it is not good for you and the world because it is taking energy out of the world . I think AI is sustainable because AI can speed things up making work easier.

  • Artificial Intelligence is DAMAGING OUR PLANET. AI is TAKING OVER THE WORLD. It takes 500,000 litres of water to extract just one kilogram of gold. I will be prepared to reply to anybody who disagrees with my point because there are many more facts that prove that AI is a water guzzler. It lives off of energy. Every time you search into AI, it uses many times more energy to run than a google search. However I will be sure to stay open minded. I will listen to everybody's point of view.

    1. What you say about AI using a lot of water is true. AI data centres use a lot of water to keep cool -- so this point is difficult to argue with. However, do you have evidence for your point that AI is "taking over the world"?

      1. Of course I am prepared to supply you with masses of evidence about AI taking over the world.
        Here are some facts:
        - In May 2023, 3,900 US job losses were linked directly to AI
        - It reduces our ability to think critically and engage in other mentally demanding tasks
        -83 million jobs are expected to be lost in the next five years due to AI
        All of these facts back up my point.

        1. Can you cite the sources of your facts? How do you know that they are reliable?

          1. I can definitely confirm that my comment was reliably sourced.
            I ensured that I found them on sites like GOV.UK and Britannica, which are trusted, truthful sources.
            These sources are used by millions of people, who trust the sites. This shows that they are truly reliable.
            Thanks.

    2. I disagree because AI is something that is very important in out daily life now, for example the Military needs high technology fighter jets and bombers, like the American NGAD or the British BAE Tempest, these two rely mostly on AI to spot out enemies and predict what is happening in the battle field. Furthermore without AI I think technology advancements will be much slower than they are now, it 's crucial for AI to exist in our daily life, theres no going back now.
      However I do agree that AI is damaging our planet and "taking over the world" since they are extremely powerful and capable of solving ten problems in one minute.

  • I think that AI is a major advance in technology and bring a lot to people who use it. However, AI looks really bad for the planet. In fact, the planet is a topical talk in the society about the climatic change and the AI doesn't bring anything good about that.

  • Ai is sustainable when it optimises resources,reduces waste,
    promotes renewable énergies and improves quality of life.
    However, its environmental impact must be reduced to be really sustainable.

  • The waste due to ai is far more important than I thought it was. I don't think it is sustainable. But stopping using ai will decrease the development of some sectors like health for example. So maybe the solution is to use it less, or to find a way to make it more sustainable.
    Though if we don't find a way to do it, in my opinion we should stop using it. It causes too much damages to the Earth. We have to remember people after us will live on this planet too, so we have to protect it. And, as the quiz shows, despite all the good part of ai, the bad side of it is not negligible.

  • Many people use AI for unnecessary stuff and I think its use should be kept to a minimum and only used for important things. Otherwise it’s bad for our environment.

    1. Jazzed_journalist can you give some examples of uses for AI that are unnecessary and those that are important in your opinion?

  • I agree at the idea that AI is sustainable. For me, they allow to progress in a lot of topic and help humans to be more productive. The second raison is that we don't need to delete AI but we need to teach how use them and that every request have conséquences.

  • In my opinion, AI. is partially sustainable. Even though it is a great tool because it gives you fast answers on a lot of different topics and helps you gain knowledge , it also presents some disadvantages. You can ask something if you have doubts on an educational question, or a everyday question.
    However I think that AI. is starting to take over people’s ability to think by themselves and can cause problem like some cheating at school for example. Moreover, this electronic tool consumes a lot of energy and with the rise of people using it because of its accessibility, it exacerbates climate change. As a conclusion, I think it should probably be removed from the public use and developed for important matters. That way it would be used wisely and would preserve a bit more our planet !

  • I think it depends on the type of AI: Computers generally give you answer based on the internet and sometimes the internet lies. It gathers up rumours and sometimes they are not always true. Therefore we can not rely on the AI device.

    1. It's good to be cautious when using any freely available information - can you think of any ways that you could verify the information you get from AI so that it can be of use?

      1. I think that if the question is opinion based they should get people to do polls on it. Also, when using the internet you should also be careful what site you are getting your answer from. In my experience, my mum has always warned me that anyone can put anything on the internet. She has made sure I use well known sites for knowledge like BBC bitesize . Thank you

  • I think AI is sustainable as it saves paper and answers your questions although I don't think we should let it completely take over, I don't think humans should give up their jobs for AI otherwise we would become lazy and probably eat more unhealthily which would be bad for the Eco system as demands for food grow higher.

  • i think that A.I is not sustainable as A.I will become more intelligent then humans and that instead of focuusing on A.I we should worry about saving the world cause if we dont trying to create A.I would be useless

  • In my opinion A.I in 2025 and A.I so far has not been sustainable at all. The impact that artificial intelligence is massive. As the influence of all this brand new technology is on the up rise peoples jobs have been perishing and A.I has been flourishing with Jobs. A.I has been out of control and employment responsibilities such as: pilots, taxi drivers, possibly waiters and a lot more of variates of jobs. Thank you for reading.

    1. All very valid points - however in the 1800's there was the industrial revolution where people had similar concerns that jobs would be replaced by machines. Instead people learned to use machines and service machines. Do you think something similar might happen with AI? So rather than replacing jobs, it could create some and the way we work just needs to adapt?

  • The main difference between AI and a regular search is that the result of a regular search are different links to different websites that the user has to search through in order to get answers. AI gives us a direct, detailed response. Using AI is much faster and the answers of AI can be adapted to the wishes of the user, making AI more attractive.

  • A believe that AI, progress and all of that is useless if we don't focus on saving the planet first. What's the point of making progress if no one get's to experience the result because the planet is destroyed and we all die? Our main priority should be preserving and protecting the planet. The people alive today might not get to experience the healthy, advanced, happy earth but our descendants will. I think it is extremely selfish to want quick progress so we can experience it, dooming the future generations. In a nutshell I think our number 1 priority should be preserving, protecting and saving the planet and AI and other advancements should come second.

    1. You make some passionate points @humorous_contribution. Why do you think some people might keen on prioritising quick progress, and are less concerned about the impact on the planet?

  • I think AI is not good, because if you use it for homework you will not learn anything and won`t help year 10`s or year 11`s in practising for your GCSE`s. When you do your GCSE`s you can not use AI and will be classed as cheating as if you were using it for your homework. I also wanted to add that, AI is definitely taking over the world and I think it should be banned as people use Siri or Face ID, for their phone or fingerprint to open it up and that could take personal information that you would not like to spread but would be leaked.

    1. Really interesting point about mobile phones using AI. They may help us organise our lives or find an answer to something quicker than a search engine but what is the mini AI in our pocket learning from us?

  • I scored 7/8. That quiz really made me realize how harmful AI could be, and some don't even realize it !
    How is AI going to ever be sustainable in the future with that massive amount if co2 production and all of that electronic waste ? In my point of view, I don't think that it is very necessary to use AI daily or to consider it being sustainable because there are way more harms than benefits. That huge amount of co2 emission is a reason of air pollution and climate change . But how can we try to make it more sustainable in the future? And how can we reduce the amount of co2 that comes out ? Is AI ever going to be sustainable? Those questions made me want to research more about this topic and know more facts about the harms of AI , but I don't think if AI can actually be sustainable one day... Can it ?

    1. Good score and glad to see some of the points raised have made you think. I totally understand all the points you've made here.
      If the main negative issue with AI is the carbon emissions, does this then pose the question that if we can solve the method by which AI infrastructures gain their energy, this negative is resolved?

  • Although AI is used lots, it can be unsustainable yet sustainable in many ways. Every day, people use AI for different things, from getting it to do your homework, to getting it to do your own job. I believe AI is quite unsustainable, although its straight from a robot, it doesn't help the environment at all, it releases fossil fuels and energy waste. Many people believe it's "not that deep" of a conversation that we need to discuss, I disagree. AI is smart, but not for the environment.

  • I scored 7 in the quiz.
    On the one hand AI has numerous benefits but if we observe the bad effects of AI , it seems that AI is not as magical and effective as it is perceived. This can be understood by observing the amount of carbon dioxide ( a greenhouse gas) which will be released till 2030 for the production, manufacturing and functioning of AI. As per the data , million tons of waste will be produced till 2030 which is a huge amount. Thus it can be said that AI is good and very beneficial tool for future but not sustainable since it is leading or giving birth to those causes which will have detrimental effect on our environment. The fact that a single mail every day for a year also utilizes water is a fact which we usually ignore.
    Therefore there is need for some technological innovations in the field of AI so that it can be more sustainable as well as life saver.

  • I think AI is sustainable because it has helped us in many ways like providing job opportunities, helping in our education, for typing documents and for entertainment.

  • AI is very sustainable for humans regardless of the fact that AI is causing carbon emissions. It has really helped us in our daily lives, made work easier for us and efficient. If not for AI we would not have gone this far, we might not progress and we might still be struggling but through the productive minds of humans AI has been created. AI has even done us good in our educational lives by helping us to further our learning abilities. Forgetting the fact that it is causing harm to the society I could actually say that AI is very very sustainable in many people's lives.

    1. That's an interesting point you made about AI and education. Can you give an example?

      1. AI has helped us in our educational abilities by helping us to further our research in topics, assignments, etc.
        For example if a teacher gives us a topic related to history we could ask google assistants, Siri, Alexa etc.
        Yes we can type on google, but these AI can make the work faster and go deeper in that aspect because it was created for that particular reason.

      2. AI has helped us in our educational abilities by helping us to further our research in topics, assignments, etc.
        For example if a teacher gives us a topic related to history we could ask google assistants, Siri, Alexa etc.
        Yes we can type on google, but these AI can make the work faster and go deeper in that aspect because it was created for that particular reason.

  • I don't think that AI is sustainable because anyone can redirect it and it could invade everybody's privacy

  • Hello,
    I do not think that AI is good for the planet and is not sustainable. Although AI has its perks that will (hopefully) improve our everyday lives, it creates way too much carbon emissions that affect our planet. When you send one email a week for 1 year straight using AI, computers overheat and water cools them down. If you do this, you will use a total of 27 litres of water.

  • I think that we should reduce the use of AI because, most of the time, we only use it to save time or to do things we could do ourselves. I also believe it could be very important for some people, like scientists and doctors, but I would put restrictions on its use for normal people. In my opinion, its benefits are not worth all the damage it causes to the environment.

  • I think AI is sustainable as it tells us detailed info about the things we ask it could be about climate, weather, researches or what not. It also helps us in education sectors making education fun and interesting like tell me who doesn't want education to be interesting and playful at the same time and AI is just the write things. Also ai can be used to make it sustainable by using it to a certain extent.

    1. Could you give any examples of how AI might affect the environment?

  • From my point of view, I believe that AI isn't sustainable at the moment because it relies on the non-renewable energy which affects the environment and causes pollution. AI also uses large amount of water, which negatively impacts the environment as well.

    I believe that for AI to be sustainable we should rely on renewable energy to power AI instead of non-renewable energy also by using special liquids for cooling instead of water or by recycling the heat that the servers produce and give it to the surrounding buildings. It is essential to set a daily usage limit per individual to ensure its efficiency and continuous operation. It is well-known that the efficiency of renewable is lower compared to non-renewable energy. Currently, non-renewable energy contributes to 75-80% of global energy production, while renewable energy accounts for only 20-25%.

    Therefore, if we rely on renewable energy while implementing a daily usage cap for each individual and cooling servers by something instead of water, we can ensure the sustainable operation of AI efficiently while also protecting the environment from pollution.

    To conclude, I believe that AI is not sustainable at the moment because of the problems it creates. If we continue on using AI in this way, many issues will arise one of them is that the ozone layer, which protects us from the UV light that the sun produces, will be destroyed because of the pollution.

    1. Well done for using evidence to back up your ideas. Can you provide a source for your information?

      1. Well, I've gathered my information from the quiz above and I was always searching about AI and I had a lot knowledge about it and when I faced AI and Sustainability it really attracted and I searched about it a lot from different resources such as the news and from different platforms like YouTube.

      2. Well, I've gathered my information from the quiz above and I was always searching about AI and I had a lot knowledge about it and when I faced AI and Sustainability it really attracted and I searched about it a lot from different resources such as the news and from different platforms like YouTube.

  • I think that AI is not sustainable. Despite it being used almost everywhere in the world, it is a huge waste of the world's energy and electricity. It is definitely not the best use of our resources and will likely end up harming us overall. Taking into fact everything we do in a day such as driving, charging our phone, and even using our phones already is a huge problem for the environment and gasses in the atmosphere, AI will only add to it. We are too dependent on AI in our everyday lives and it waste much-needed energy so. It will cause long lasting effects on our planet as well as us so by definition and by the negative effects of Ai, it is not sustainable and overall hinders our world.

  • I believe that AI is not sustainable for the environment, as in the quiz, the word sustainability is defined as being able to do something without "causing irreversible damage to the planet." However, when using AI, it nearly takes ten times more than the amount of electricity used to do a google search and produces harmful substances such as carbon dioxide. Not only does it require electricity, but also water--tons of water to cool down. None of these problems makes AI sustainable and in addition with it ruining the environment, it also ruins people's creativity.

  • Hello,
    I scored 6 out of 8. The quiz was very useful as it encouraged me to know more informations about AI. I know that Ai became a main part in our lives but it damages our environment and creates a large amount of CO2. AI can help us do difficult tasks. Also, it helps farmers, scientists and others work better. On the other hand, it produces harmaful gas like CO2 as the quiz mentioned. Although AI has many advantages, it has many disadvantages. From my point of view, protecting our planet is more important than AI. Finally, we have to spread awareness that AI damages our planet because some people don't know this.

  • I think AI is sustainable as it had perfectly found new renewable energy sources that would be a breakthrough through the humanity such as the wind and the solar power energy sources , it could even invent or detect a new material that could help scientists to observe on it or even engineers to craft with . Even AI is used to suggest new superb , interesting discussions.
    To sum up, AI is like a multi purpose machine that produces new things that are usable now or in the future.

  • I think that AI is extremely sustainable because you can ask it questions about every day life like how to get from one place to another, how to improve on certain things and many other questions that sometimes people can not answer. However, every time you send one email using AI it uses up to 27 litres of water to cool the system down, whereas if you send an email in a normal way you would not use anywhere near as much water meaning there is less of a chance of having a drought.

    1. Interesting thoughts highspirited_forest, can you tell me how else you think that AI affects the environment?

  • I think AI is hundred percent sustainable because it provides us with solution to solve our problems, for instance you can search anything using chatgpt, copilot, meta AI and the rest of them. AI keeps our important documentations for future purposes.

    1. Thanks for sharing. Do you think there could be any negative effects of AI?

  • I don't think AI is sustainable because it makes ninety five percent of the kids in our present generation lazy, for instance most children depends on the information gotten from AI apps such as meta AI or chatgpt for their classroom assessments, however people no longer sweep rather they use AI robot for that. My point here is that AI is causing harm ti kids because it is making them loose their manners when it comes to chores.

  • Think for a moment, about the environment. Think how it feels to be in such a pleasant weather touching the lush grass around you feeling the warmth of nature. AI is slowly but surely, and sadly is destroying what we all love. However this problem can be recovered from, if we take the right steps. We all not only one but all should limit the use of AI. Through attending this quiz I learnt about the side effects of AI which I never knew. IT really did fascinate me. So think it as by reducing the use of AI we are saving our planet, But when AI is required, we shall not back off as progress is equally important. Balance making shall be must when using AI as its consequences are deadly but progress too, is enormous so making a balance will be the perfect decision.

  • I think that the world has functioned perfectly fine without the need for AI, and it has only become popular recently due to the development of technology. The people who mainly use AI tend to be students who rely on it to complete their homework, essays, or other school work, which, in my opinion, takes away from a person's creativity and originality. I think it encourages laziness and an overdependence on AI for tasks which contribute to brain development, especially during childhood where this is most important, and so not only does using AI affect the environment, but it affects people too.

    AI has contributed a significant amount of greenhouse gases into the environment, and so I have no reason to believe that advancements will have a positive impact on the world. So much energy and water is being used for AI to reach databases and servers to retrieve information for its user, and I really do not think that the way we are moving forward will decrease the amount of resources used from using AI. As mentioned in the quiz, the fact that it uses 2.9W of energy per AI search shows the impact it has on the world compared to a Google search (0.3W), which just shows that it cannot be sustainable in the long run if AI is only going to become more advanced.

  • What i have to say is that the production of AI harms the environmental condition and we should care for the world first before thinking of the invention of AI. this means that we should figure out a way to invent AI without harming our environment.

  • I think AI is not that sustainable yet because lots of people use it.If AI was used by less people i think it would be better for the environment, people who control AI have to use bottles of water to stop the machines from over heating.If you send one email everyday for a year the people who control the AI to send that email have to use twenty-seven litres of water just to stop the machine from over heating. That means we are wasting water and if we use to much water over years and years there will be no clean water
    left.I also think more scientists should use AI as they could use the technology they have to make AI more sustainable so more people could use it.

  • After i completed that quiz (6 out of 8) i really noticed how unsustainable is AI. the fact that shocked me the most is that its predicted that we will have millions of tons of electronic waste and in my opinion scientists and computer engineers should manually monitor the concept of AI to prevent the info to go to waste.

    In conclusion, AI isn't sustainable enough

  • Hello everyone😊

    I learned from the quiz I answered that AI is not sustainable for the environment yet. Searching something 1 time with AI uses as much energy as searching 10 times on Google! This means AI uses alot of energy, which creates more CO2 and harms the environment. By 2030, AI will create alot of electronic waste. But we humans created AI so we can also find ways to make it better by making it more environmently friendly.


    Thank you 😊

  • I scored 6/8 in the quiz and I think AI is not full sustainable because according to the lesson we had with my teachers for the past six days, I got to learn that AI consumes a lot of energies, its CO2 aids in the depletion of the ozone layer with results to climate change not making our climate sustainable due to its effects.

  • I believe that AI is definitely not sustainable as of yet- and is creating immense amounts of waste and damage for this planet, and if current trends continue, this damage may become irreversible. However, it is also possible that this damage can be prevented once the knowledge of the damage AI is causing becomes more widespread.

  • AI is not sustainable many AI robot research are telling that robot can destroy humans in future and I have search and got an information which is Sophia one of the robot is telling I can destroy humans . And it will create an AI world technologies. It is not sure but it can try to do it in future generations. And ai was consuming more more energy sources and it will affect the environment and cause pollution. And in future AI robots are in all place means humans are be very lazy because robot do everything and it cause some diseases to humans. Due to inactive.AI is not sustainable in everything but mostly I will tell 75% of AI techs is not sustainable. And ai will cause unemployment of humans in future and many of them will go to poverty situations. Ai will destroy some humans skills and it will not allow humans to develop a their creative mind and we should not be slavery of AI we should use AI for some limited usages.

    In future the ai creaters can reduce the power consumption of ai and they should fix a limit for ai usages per days. And they can create an emotion mind of humans in ai robots . They will do these all means ai can sustain in future

    1. Interesting ideas. Can you think of any benefits of AI?

      1. In this disscusion I mostly see people saying that AI is not sustainable and that it is bad. But they have forgotten that AI is helping us in many ways. As student I can say that AI can really save you a lot of time that you would spend on searching for information. In many jobs AI is helping by providing necessary needs like alogorithms to programmers. Also AI is getting smarter and in future it will probably help us invent new things.

        1. You made a good point that AI helps in many ways. Can you think of some negative aspects of students using AI in their work?

      2. Artists, writers, and musicians can use AI to enhance their ideas rather than replace them.
        AI fosters global connections, making the world feel more united.It helps in hyper personalization like
        helping to design a home based on a person’s unique tastes and also comforts those who are lonely, especially the elderly or people struggling with mental health issues.It helps people with disabilities to regain vision and enhancing human senses.It also helps to track endangered species to restore forests.To predict disasters that saves many lives too AI can help .researchers analyze data to improve curriculum effectiveness and students make informed decisions about their career paths
        AI can make education more cost-effective
        It can help educators identify and address learning disabilities early
        Also can help educators provide personalized support to students,it can automate tasks like grading, recording attendance, and scheduling and
        can free up time for teachers to focus on teaching and mentoring students and provides customised feedback, recommendations and resources and helps children with dyslexia who can't able to learn anything will be benefited

  • I don't think that AI is sustainable yet. although they could think of things to improve the enviroment, the ratio from enviromental benefit to the amont of waste is just too big, if we could decrease the amount of waste produced. It might just be sustainable

  • I was very suprised after learning how much ai wastes and hoe muchbenergy it needs i underestimated how harmful ai is to the enviroment and next time is use ai i will be more careful and think about what to ask it.

  • AI is often criticized for its lack of sustainability, raising concerns about the dangers it might cause to human beings. For example, there are reports about how AI-powered robots, such as Sophia, have made some controversial statements on destroying humans and the future of AI-dominated technologies. It is uncertain, but there is a possibility that AI may try to create a world created by technology in the next generations.

    A major issue is the high energy consumption of AI systems, which may cause damage to the environment and leads to pollution. Also, the use of AI robots in day to day life may lead to human inactivity, causing health problems. It is estimated that about 75% of AI technologies are unsustainable because of such issues.

    AI also threatens the increase in unemployment in industries. That makes human poor, and human skills will also be destroyed, reducing creativity and innovation. the worst risk is humans becoming dependent on AI and serving them rather than being its masters. Hence, AI should be used within limits and for specific purposes only.
    In order to establish the sustainability of AI in the future, developers should concentrate more on decreasing power consumption and should limit its usage and create an emotional connect between humans and AI robots, which might help balance functionality with ethics in AI. this will make AI a sustainable thing for future generations.

  • AI can be good for the planet if we make sure it uses clean energy,like solar or wind power,instead of polluting sources. We can also make AI smarter so it doesn't waste too much energy. If we use AI to help find better ways to save energy,plant trees,or even clean up the ocean,it could really help the Earth.So, if we take care of how we use AI,it can be a friend to the planet instead of hurting it !

    Do you think AI can be sustainable, or is it a step back for the environment?

    What's your take on AI's role in fighting climate change?

    I think AI can be sustainable because, with the write changes,we can make it help the planet more than harm it .

    If we use green energy and smarter technologies, it can be a powerful tool to make the world cleaner and safer!

  • AI is potential to be sustainable but achieving this requires careful management of its environmental economic, and social impacts.

  • For me and I guess for all people, this kind of facts are shocking and a truth that points out the necessity we have to change this area or at least the unavoidable reality that we live in and we are responsible for.
    AI has the two sides of a coin, on the first side we can observe the decrease of paper consumption as now technologies are integrated in our way to learn. In my opinion, it is a really good solution as the fact that we used and still have to realise the significant amount of paper we continually use in the educational community for exams, works and tasks is becoming an obvious verity. Technologies have given us a temporary solution which is becoming a problem as its polluting the environment and now it needs an own solution for us to save our planet. In the other side of the coin we have the fact that yes, technologies and AI are a present for us to use with responsibility and as we found a remedy for the paper consumption we mustn't abuse of these kind of digital solutions.

    In conclusion, we indeed have to apply and find an effective way to avoid the abuse of technologies to stop the world from being destroyed but in my opinion AI can also help us find that desired cure so we shouldn't stop it's development but find a way for it to co-exist with the well being of our planet.

  • I think ai is sustainable because if you ask it something it will give you the answer easily. Since ai uses artificial intelligence to get the answer and when your doing like a document on your computer it lets you save it so your capable to finish it another day or maybe when you play a game it will save your progress that you have recently done

  • i think that ai is good but it will make students not be wonderful and smart enough they will open chatgpt or gemini and their is a lot they will use ai apps to make them answer their homeworks make projects for them so your iq will be low

  • I think the quiz was a challenge because I have larnt something new frow out the quiz I did today.
    I also larnt you shoudn't us AI because it takes harf your batory.
    I hope the next leson will be good and it involvs fun.

  • In my opinion I think that AI is not sustainable because the amount of pollution that AI take up is just to much. Do we really want are planet because at this rate are planet is going to potentially be gone from the amount of pollution that it is taking up. We need to be more eco-friendly if we want to live as long as possible.In are lesson I was the banker and I think that they should have AI because when people come in with lots of coins we don't want to sit there for hours counting when AI can do it all in seconds.

  • AI is very sustainable because an AI robot once beat the world chess reining champion.AI can also be bad because it uses a lot of energy and harms the planet.

    1. good thought, woundrous_engine -- but I'm not sure the chess-champion AI has much to do with sustainability, more just its... ability! What other ways might AI be unsustainable, beyond high energy usage?

  • Generally, I think AI isn't sustainable because it uses a lot of electronic waste which is bad for the environment, which causes climate change.

  • I'm really happy with my score as I got 8/8! I really enjoy learning about AI and also Donald Trump! I think AI is a really smart thing because it can save you loads of time! often people use it for writing and research! If I ever had a chance of using AI i would find out exciting news about rare animals seen. I really like AI and i enjoy learning about it!

    1. We're glad you enjoyed the lessons!

  • I think AI is not that good because it releases a lot of carbon dioxide (approximately as much as five times the amount of carbon dioxide as a car in its lifetime) and its polluting the earth which is not helping our global warming issue. Even though a lot of people think they deserve AI, I think online shoppers are the least important. I don't think it is really important that the online shoppers need AI.

  • I think AI should not be used because it takes up a lot of electric and it is bad for the environment, because it uses up 27 liters of data a minute . Many people may think it is good and although it does help us it is very bad for the world. I think only scientist should be able to use AI because they can find new medicines to cure illnesses and record important patient prescription information.

    1. I think you're right that AI looks very energy-hungry, respectful_orange—but what about the possibility that AI is used to invent new ways to save energy elsewhere, or to solve other environmental problems?

  • Lots of AI is used around the world but the real question is who deserves it the most for me is big online store owners because they can supply farmers, doctors and huge online shoppers.

  • II THINK AI IS NOT YET SUSTAINABLE BECAUSE IT REQUIRES LOTS IF ENERGY AND IT CAN CREATE E WASTE TOO, WHICH CAN'T BE RECYCLED AND WILL PRODUCE MILLIONS OF WASTE AND CAN CREATE GLOBAL WARMING WHICH EMITS GREEN HOUSE GASES AND HEATS OUR WORLD

  • AI is a powerful thing that either help build a better future or make existing problem worse. In my perspective, on one side, it makes industries more efficient, reduce wastes, and helps solve problems. It optimise energy use, improve farming. But on the other side, AI itself consumes massive amount of electricity, relies on hardware that requires manufacturing and it can also to job losses if not used properly. The question isn’t just about whether ai sustainable, it’s about how we choose to use it. If we invest in cleaner energy, design ai models that require less power, ai can be force for good. But if we let it grow unchecked, without considering its impact on the planet and society, it could add to problems we are trying to solve. Sustainability isn’t just about technology, it’s about responsibility.

    Thank you :)

  • I think that AI is still not sustainable enough because it can have negative environmental and societal impacts. But the confusing question is, 'Is it that simple?' The answer is 'No,' so let's understand why:

    1. AI consumes a lot of energy, especially for training large models.
    2. AI requires rare materials for hardware, which leads to resource depletion.
    3. AI uses significant amounts of water for cooling data centers.
    4. AI contributes to electronic waste as outdated hardware is discarded.
    5. AI can have ethical issues like bias, misinformation, and job displacement.

    I also think that AI might limit people's critical thinking because it makes life extremely easy, which could have unintended consequences.I believe that limiting the use of AI could be one solution to this problem.

    Thanks for reading!

  • AI has the potential to significantly contribute sustainability by optimizing process and identifying solutions to environmental challenges, it's own development and operation can have a large environmental impact due to high energy consumption primarily from data centers required to train and run AI models, making it a complex issue with both positive and negative aspects depending on how it's implimented and managed essentially.

  • In my opinion, AI isn't sustainable. In fact, it uses much more materials and energy to operate. AI itself is run through computers that requires rare minerals for the microchips, which are often mined in a way that may harm the environment. AI operations also require a large amount of water and energy that comes from the burning of fossil fuels. Despite of these problems, I believe that humanity will further develop AI, finding the most efficient way to run it.

    Young generations like us should find innovations that can make AI helpful, while still preserving our planet from various damages.

  • I think that if we give AI too much knowledge they can over power us,some AI is more advanced in knowledge than us but personally computers should be used in schools instead of books but AI should not be programmed into the computer for example a chrome book at my school can use google lense and this can find out the answer but it doesn't work.Also i think that homework should be done at school because if you did it at home you could cheat on it.

  • I think AI is not sustainable. Artificial intelligence is definitely capable of doing very cool things but unfortunately it just doesn't have a good impact on our environment. This is because AI relies heavily on computing at data centres, which consume a large amount of electricity, and also require a large amount of water for cooling purposes.

  • I was astonished that I scored full marks on the quiz, and it really made me think about how AI can impact the environment. I just found out that training one AI model can release 626,000 pounds of carbon dioxide, which is equal to five times of what the average car produces in a lifetime.
    We need to find more ways to make AI more sustainable, or we are basically contributing to climate change. A solution is for companies to focus on developing energy-efficient AI models and use renewable energy to power data centers. Tech giants like Google are also prioritizing sustainability, which is a stupendous example for other companies.
    If AI keeps growing, we need to make sure that it's not hurting the planet in any way possible.

  • I scored a 6/8. I learned AI isn't sustainable because it makes polution and if people use AI then when they don't have AI they wont know how to explain how they got the answer for questions.

  • i think Ai Is sustainable and very helpful as it can help you with things but i dont think it should control everything

    1. What sort of things can AI help you with, @illuminated_skill?

      1. AI can help you with many things such as: data analysis, decision making, health care, accounting, education and finance and so much more which enables buisnesses and reduce errors.

  • AI is not sustainable. Companies will most likely not care about making AI sustainable, as this will cost companies more money, and will not increase profits enough to offset the loss. I think if AI is ever going to be sustainable, governments must include incentives to make AI more sustainable. I think this is unlikely, as the biggest supporters of AI (Russia, China and America) are not well known for their sustainable efforts. AI is not worth risking our planet in my opinion.

    1. I agree because... although china has a pollution rate of 35 µg/m³, the government has not adhered to the 5 µg/m³ advice set by the world health organisation. The USA also ranks high in pollution rates, second only to china. The USA does not follow the WHO's guidelines, and according to a website published on 23 December 2024, the USA is 1.8 x over the guidelines. This is expected for a larger country, but it is also worth noting that the larger more wealthier countries also have funds to invest in sustainable energy. China, for example, was and continues to be a large investor in hydroelectric energy, according the revised edition of the book "china, the land and the people" published in 1990, china has been continually investing in hydroelectricity as well as biomass. Biological waste is buried in a pit to produce methane. Trees are another viable solution to the issue of AI sustainability. With vascular plants water is brought in through the xylem tissue Co2 is kept in, oxygen is kept out through pores in stomata. This reduces the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere, reducing the effects of climate change.
      All considered, AI can be used to benefit people in many ways, but regulations must be put in place to reduce the effects of climate change in my opinion.

  • I think AI is not sustainable YET as it is producing millions of tons of electrical waste and is impacting the environment negatively. however in the future I believe that we will find a way to use it without affecting the planet.

  • I personally think that AI is unsustainable as it takes just under 3 watt-hours of electricity to place a search in an AI platform. As well as this, it takes a lot of water to cool down the system after sending just a few simple texts. AI may be incredibly intelligent but it causes a lack of the use of human brains. Now we just rely on AI never thinking about where it could lead us and the damage it does to the planet.

  • I received an 88% on my quiz of prior knowledge of AI and sustainability. Something I learned that I had not known before is that by the year 2030, which is equivalent to half of a decade, AI will be predicted to create millions of tons of electronic waste. All this waste can tarnish the world in many different ways, involving both the environment and our Earth. While many people may depend on AI today, it can cause many negative effects in the future. This includes contributing to climate change, which has been in effect for many years, causing the Earth's temperature to rise higher and higher as the years pass. Because of this, many individuals are working towards more sustainable ways to manage AI, such as what we discuss in other topics on the Student Hub.

  • I think AI is helpful in our world but AI is one of the causes of pollution. but us humans could develop AI and make it more sustainable and maybe even make it help us with our modern day solutions. Though AI helps us with our technology we cannot deny that it is not unstable.

  • I keep coming back to this question every day. Many people see AI as the ultimate source of knowledge, some even calling it perfect. While AI is undeniably powerful, what many don't realize is the harm it causes to our planet. I was surprised to learn a quiz that a single AI model can produce more carbon emission than a car! This raises a serious concern, if we continue developing AI at this rate without considering its environmental impact, we should be contributing to climate change without even realizing it. AI requires massive amounts of energy to function, especially large models that process data in real time. Data centers that power AI systems consume enormous amounts of electricity, much of which still comes from non-renewable sources like coal and gas. This results in high carbon emissions, making AI less environmentally friendly then most people assume. In addition, the constant demand for more powerful AI means an ever-growing need for energy, creating a cycle that puts more strain on the environment. If we want AI to truly benefit humanity, we need to take responsibility. As members of society, we should come together to find ways to make AI more sustainable. This could include developing energy-efficient AI models, using renewable energy to power data centers, and even rethinking how we use AI in our daily lives. Innovation should not come at the cost of our planet. If we act now, we can create a future where AI and sustainability go hand in hand, ensuring that technological progress does not harm the world we call home.

  • I think that AI isn't sustainable enough for us to use i this much often as it needs 460 terawatt an hour which can fully power 32200000 houses or cool 460000000 of them in a single year. So it shouldn't be used as much cause it could lead to a massive energy loss. thank you!

  • AI (Artificial Intelligence) is NOT sustainable for many reasons, a few being that it consumes drinking water which people in need could've used, It uses a lot of electricity, and the process of training and using AI creates a lot of CO2 which adds to climate change. Although some may say it could help educators and students alike, that doesn't erase the fact that actively using AI creates problems that add to other unsustainable structures.

  • I think AI is some what sustainable, because it reduces the use of intense quantity of papers. Nowadays cutting of trees,plays an important role in causing severe negative impact on the environment. Environment is great which is the reason for our survival, but we, humans are severely polluting that great gem, environment by cutting more and more trees for a major reason, papers. Through documents, files, we are dumping lots and lots of papers which includes cutting of trees. But, by using AI we can reduce papers which avoid cutting of trees and save the nature...

  • I'm stunned over the fact that AI could emit this much waste. Starting from natural resources such as: water, gas, oil, coal, to electricity used in homes. Now that I've discovered really opens my mind about AI. I realise, AI can be both powerful and destructive for our planet. If humankind gets replaced by AI, what would this world be? A solution for this problem is to create another program which is more environmentally friendly. We must take into action as soon as possible for generations to come.

  • I disagree with cheerful butterfly because if everyone started to use AI than no one would talk face to face

  • I got 7 out of 8 and I think that AI will not yet be sustainable for a very long time because as the time passes our technology will definitely develop over time but it may take centuries to find ways to make AI sustainable so that it doesn't affect our environment and so that we can keep breathing fresh air that has not been contaminated by toxins from waste.

  • AI is very useful as it provides and helps us in modern day work. Also, AI has an ability to carry out tasks that are difficult or challenging for humans. AI could potentially help us to find a more efficient renewable energy source or cure a incurable disease. However, to power AI needs lots of energy which creates carbon dioxide and large amounts of water to stop it from overheating. Also, AI has disadvantages such as: potential human job loss and lack of emotion and creativity. But I think overall if we use AI for good purposes it will benefit the human kind.

  • On the one hand, AI is very clearly damaging to our planet. According to many sources across the internet, and also the quiz, AI uses 10 times more energy than one single google search. This clearly shows that AI is not sustainable. On the other hand, AI is a very new technology and can easily be made more sustainable. AI does help humans a lot and if it can be made better for the environment, could be excellent for everyone.

  • I think Ai is sustainable and I useful to several people such as students who use it for their homework or their essays and adults using AI to write their emails or running a written case through. The point is that 60% of people use AI for their own needs and I thinks its good however I think that since AI is more powerful I think people are taking it for granted now, like using AI to do basic tasks that are made for people such as creating a new art piece or doing anything that requires human imagination.

  • As I think about the incredible potential of Artificial Intelligence, I get really excited about the kind of future we can create together. I mean, imagine a world where AI helps us tackle some of the toughest challenges we're facing today, like climate change, poverty, and inequality. A world where AI-powered education platforms make it possible for anyone, anywhere to access the knowledge and skills they need to thrive. Where AI-driven healthcare systems help us live longer, healthier lives. Where AI enables us to explore space, to discover new worlds, and to push the boundaries of human knowledge and understanding. But here's the thing: we have to make sure that we're developing and using AI in ways that are responsible, ethical, and fair. We have to prioritize transparency, accountability, and compassion. We have to make sure that AI is augmenting human capabilities, not replacing them. And we have to do all of this together - as a global community, as friends, as family. Because when we do, I truly believe that we can create a future that's more just, more equitable, and more wonderful for all of us.

  • This quiz is very original and I think it is very good to be aware of the impacts that AI have to world.

  • I got eight out of eight in the quiz of the facts I learned in class when we did the lesson so it was easy but also interesting at the same time .A lot of it is damaging the planet and increasing global warming and melting the ice caps .

  • In my opinion, AI is not sustainable. And i think we can all say that. I see a lot of people saying it's sustainable because in 2030, technologies will become cleaner and more developped. But until today's evidence, we are not yet in 2030. And indeed today, AI is not sustainable. And we cannot be sure of what tomorrow will be made of. The goal is to focus on the present to make AI sustainable in the future. But it is necessary to admit that it is not today in order to try to ensure that it become so later. The number that really surpised me was the number of liters needed to cool a computer system used for AI. If we only send one email per week using AI, it would take 27 liters of water to cool the system. Im honest, i answered 12. This clearly show that we need to raise awareness among populations on this subject. 27 liters is crazy. This is the water consumption for one person for 13 days i would say. Since we know that we have to drink 2 liters per day to be healthy. And i think that people are not enough aware of this kind of information that should be know by everyone using AI.

  • Hello topical talkers,

    I think that AI can never sustainable for our amount of usage as we are wasting more that 450 terawatrs an hour which is a lot of wasted valuable Power that can power Factories for months.

    That puts both humanity and Earth's life time at risk of being unhabitable enough for us and even plants.
    In conclusion, we must limited our AI usage Thank you!

  • I really think that AI has a real potential of being sustainable in the couple of years to come. As we can see, AI is really new to our planet as it was announced in the 21st century. Considering what we can already do with it, only 25 years into the 21st century, I can only hope and say that AI has the potential to be sustainable in the near future.

  • I believe development on AI should be halted until the process becomes as close to fully sustainable as posible. Furthermore, the current pollution crisis on our planet is bad enough without adding the waste produced by creating and training AI. What do you think? I'd love to see more persepctives on the issue.

    1. That is an interesting plan, do you think AI could be useful for planning a more sustainable world?

      1. I think it definetly can. Unlike humans, AI can tediously comb through information and organise it into a very solid plan; just imagine greener city layouts equipped with infrastructure to make recycling easier, or ocean cleaning plans where AI can detect where currents will drag the most pollution, once AI is perfected, its applications in planning will truly be endless.

  • There are many high hope that AI can help in solving some of the worlds biggest environmental emergencies. The big benefit of AI is that it can detect crucial natural disasters, It can also scan the horizon for emerging threats to the planets. which also help in business transaction and so on., THANKS.

  • There are many high hope that AI can help in solving some of the worlds biggest environmental emergencies. The big benefit of AI is that it can detect crucial natural disasters, It can also scan the horizon for emerging threats to the planets. which also help in business transaction and so on., THANKS.

  • There are many high hope that AI can help in solving some of the worlds biggest environmental emergencies. The big benefit of AI is that it can detect crucial natural disasters, It can also scan the horizon for emerging threats to the planets. which also help in business transaction and so on., THANKS.

  • There are many high hope that AI can help in solving some of the worlds biggest environmental emergencies. The big benefit of AI is that it can detect crucial natural disasters, It can also scan the horizon for emerging threats to the planets. which also help in business transaction and so on., THANKS.

  • There are many high hope that AI can help in solving some of the worlds biggest environmental emergencies. The big benefit of AI is that it can detect crucial natural disasters, It can also scan the horizon for emerging threats to the planets. which also help in business transaction and so on., THANKS.

  • I am surprise that i have been placed at the 7th place because i think today farmer really need ai to be able to reduce the amount they use to feed their plantation as a lot of people are suffering of dryness in theire country and theire is a big problem of global warming

  • i ´m not suprise by my classement because i’m a parent ( i’ m the last one).
    when you are parent you don’t use necessarily IA every days but it’s a very good idea to realise daily tasks

  • When we tried to rank the different jobs which need AI we quickly agreed on the ones which need it the less but not that quickly on the ones that need it the more.
    It is difficult to choose between a scientist or an owner of an online shop because they are doing very different jobs and need AI to help them with various subjects. At the opposite, we can easily say that a ranger or a parent don’t need that much AI. In my opinion, everyone nowadays can use AI in their job or daily to help them stay organised or find some inspiration.

  • I think that the rise of AI in our society is a good thing for different professions and allows us to do our work faster and more efficiently. However I think that the excessive use of AI can be dangerous and it cannot replace self-reflection.

  • I scored 6/8 in the quiz and i was not knowing that 27 litters of water is needed for cooling down one computer and that was shocking for me also i did not know that because of each and every use of AI, our climate is getting affected so i also understood that AI is still not sustainable. I think that AI should really work to make itself sustainable because it is really harmful for humans.

  • I learned things about AI that I never knew AI could be this harmful and how it’s affecting the environment in an unsustainable way and it is not good .This quiz helped me to understand the use and harm of AI. The use of AI is nice and cool but this quiz shared unknown facts that I didn’t know. This was fun and interesting though. The topic of AI and sustainability is full of mind blowing facts like I never knew how much water it took to cool down one PC turns out 27 liters.

  • In my opinion we should use AI but in very less amount and only for hard thing , if we keep using AI like this then humans will use AI for easy things also they will not force their brain this can effect on the brain and they will become lazy and its harmful for humans as well as for our planets also in 2030 amount of AI waste will be in millions and it will increase the pollution ,in future many people will become jobless because of AI. This can help to develop our world but in limited amount.

  • I was able to score 8out of 8. I learnt a lot of things such as how much water is wasted in 1 Google search or ai search. This quiz was really very beneficial for me .I was not knowing that ai would be that harmful .From this quiz I was able to understand the ai concept in a better way. Because of you This was able to under stand disadvantage of ai. Now i know that ai affect environment a lot.
    We can make ai more better by making it substainable and making less use of water in ai . If we make ai more better in upcoming days the pollution will be less and al will not produce lot of global warming because of global warming the glacier is melting and making harm environment if whole glacier on earth get melted the earth will be in water. It can be harmful for us .hence i thing we should make ai more substainable by using less water and producing less global warming. The ai produce lot of pollution as much as a car produce in its whole life . The pollution made by ai should be reduced.
    According to me if ai reduce its pollution then ai would be used more by people.

  • I believe AI is not yet sustainable. It creates large carbon emissions and wastes hundreds of tons of water, so I think until we find a self sustainable way to continue using AI we should limit the increasing use of it. However, this doesn't mean i don't think AI is usefull as I believe that AI will provide huge scientifical breakthroughs that will help positively progress our world, such as helping scientists predict asteriods or dangerous storms which are capable of leaving many homeless, but given the increasingly worsening climate I think we should focus on restoring our planet and then finding reusable and stainable ways for technology to advance.

    1. I'm sure humanity would find a way to make AI sustainable, like the same way we did with trains and cars.

  • In my opinion, AI can be useful since it can help us advance as a society however it is not sustainable enough to rely on as it is causes detremental damadge to the evironment

  • AI is sustainable but can also have many cons which can ruin the Earth because AI uses more electricity and as the Quiz said, a search using AI takes at least 2.9 watt-hours of electricity which is nearly 10 times as much as the Google Search Engine. However, AI can be sustainable because it is an open door to the future and can help scientists, engineers, and doctors with solving problems quicker, and by getting results faster. I believe, AI can be sustainable and unsustainable at the same time but it depends on who uses it and who will use it for good.

  • I got 7 over 8. Surprisingly, I knew that AI takes nearly 10 times more watts of electricity than Google. Elsa Olivetti ( senior author of a 2024 paper, “The Climate and Sustainability Implications of Generative AI,” ) says that the computational power required to train generative AI models that often have billions of parameters, such as OpenAI’s GPT-4, can demand a staggering amount of electricity, which leads to increased carbon dioxide emissions and pressures on the electric grid.

    Furthermore, deploying these models in real-world applications, enabling millions to use generative AI in their daily lives, and then fine-tuning the models to improve their performance draws large amounts of energy long after a model has been beyond electricity demands, much water is needed to cool the hardware used for training, and fine-tuning generative AI models, which can strain municipal water supplies and disrupt local ecosystems. I knew from the information the topical talk gave me that training one AI model can produce a lot of CO2 ( 285,000 kg ), which guides us to an essential question, how do CO2 removal systems major; moreover, do we need to look at it? The answer is that the number one thing driving climate change is the fact that we’re taking carbon that has been stuck in the ground for 100 million years, and putting it in the atmosphere, and that’s causing warming; as a result, if you wanted to manage on the climate change danger you need to control the use of AI.

    To conclude, the thing that increases more than it should will turn against you as the use of AI.

  • I got 7 over 8. Surprisingly, I knew that AI takes nearly 10 times more watts of electricity than Google. Elsa Olivetti ( senior author of a 2024 paper, “The Climate and Sustainability Implications of Generative AI,” ) says that the computational power required to train generative AI models that often have billions of parameters, such as OpenAI’s GPT-4, can demand a staggering amount of electricity, which leads to increased carbon dioxide emissions and pressures on the electric grid.
    Furthermore, deploying these models in real-world applications, enabling millions to use generative AI in their daily lives, and then fine-tuning the models to improve their performance draws large amounts of energy long after a model has been
    Beyond electricity demands, much water is needed to cool the hardware used for training and fine-tuning generative AI models, which can strain municipal water supplies and disrupt local ecosystems. I knew that from the information topical talk gave me that training AI models can produce a lot of CO2 ( 285,000 kg for each one ), which guides us to an essential question, how do CO2 removal systems major; moreover, do we need to look at it? The answer is that the number one thing driving climate change is the fact that we’re taking carbon that has been stuck in the ground for 100 million years, and putting it in the atmosphere, and that’s causing warming; as a result, if you wanted to manage on the climate change danger you need to control the use of AI.
    To conclude, the thing that increases more than it should will turn against you is the use of AI.

  • I know this might sound like a consprisce but I think that by 2045 ai might have taken over because I've seen sevarl ai girl friend apps and just google maps has ai and what happens when a Tesla drives off a cliff with a family of four I think we should stop using ai now before its to late.

    1. What can we do to make AI safer in the future?

  • In my opinion AI is sustainable because if you put it into the perspective of people globally, AI is very sustainable. It will probably take a lot of time for it to grow old (people stop using it) because, AI helps people all around the world with plenty of problems like for instance making a healthy diet, ordering packages, and just giving people ideas.

  • I scored a 8 out of 8. A few things that I learned is that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is when machines do things that require humans. And in the lesson we learned that AI may cause some impacts on the earth. For example a single google search using AI takes 2.9 watt- hours of electricity which is nearly about ten times as much as a Google search. Some other information that I learned that shocked me was that for some models it takes as much energy to create one AI-generated image as it does to charge a smartphone's battery to 50%. That would be a lot of percentage to lose in one generated photo.

    Some Data centres that run AI systems use powerful computers that can overheat.Water is used to stop this from happening , this shows that if you send a email each week that would be about 27 liters. That a lot of water that means they would have to recycle 2 times the water. AI needs technology like computers to work harder, which wears them out more quickly. AI is getting more popular so scientists predict that by the end of the decade there could be millions of tonnes of electronic waste. What would that mean for the air we breath? What would that means for growing crops? We already have too many carbon emissions.

    In conclusion AI could help a lot of people but it still has a impact on some of these things. For example a water facility, they would have extra water to recycle. On the good side they may get paid more.

  • After taking the quiz, I think AI is not very sustainable.
    AI consumes a large amount of emissions and energy which is not very efficient as it could lead to air pollution, and global warming. There has been a prediction that by 2030, AI is going to create millions of tonnes of electronic waste, damaging the state of the earth even further.
    Another example of no sustainability in AI is that if you send one email per week, people have to prevent overheating in their computers by using 27 liters of water.
    In conclusion, I believe that the advancement of AI in the world right now is not as efficient as it is highly expected of.

  • I don't agree with the fact that people think AI will take over the world as ,looking af the basics of AI, all AI is ,is just lines of code so it won't take over the world as long as no one programs it too. Sure sometimes AI makes mistakes but that's just because of an error that the programmer has done and when AI genuinely makes mistakes, it doesn't do anything that is extreme so as taking over the world is extreme AI cannot do that

  • in my opinion Ai is not sustainable because it consumes alot of energy and much of the energy is from the burning of fossil fuels and the fossil fuels helps in global warming so Ai is not sustainable for the environment

  • I think sustainable AI focus on minimising the negative environmental impacts associated with AI technologies. This includes reducing the energy consumption of AI systems, using sustainable materials in hardware components, and minimising electronic waste.
    This how sustainable AI is.

  • I think that AI is a great tool, both in education and work, but it is not very sustainable, just like many things that are in our day to day lives. It uses up loads of water, and produces a lot of greenhouse gases. However, stopping AI use would not stop climate change, but we would be taking a step towards having a healthier planet.

  • I think AI is not yet sustainable because it consumes more electrical energy that humans need to use for their daily activities and because AI is not yet sustainable, it may not last long it may work for a little while and eventually go on extinction and learning and work will not be easier again.

  • In my opinion if you could use the points of the questionnaire since it describes certain important tools when using AI andto complement and general presentation , but i also think that the last question of the questionnaire is not very clear since having the use of AI benefits us if we use it in an appropriate way only to indicate something that we do not understand but not to use it at all times even for something very simple because we would not be generating knowlwdge and movements in the neurons.

  • AI` is NOT good sometimes im scared to open tik tok like i might open it and see AI shrek dancing to all the single ladies or i might see AI sonic the hedgehog doing the whip nae nae. its really random and these gen alphas should NOT have access to ai. BOOM you just saw ariana grande hitting the griddy BOOM you just saw billie eilish getting 5 big booms BOOM now u seen chappell roan at the grammys flying in the sky

    1. Can you think of some other examples as to why AI is harmful?

  • I was surprised when the question about how much water AI needs to cool its system came up, because my mom told me in the past that AI servers need large amounts of water to cool, so I looked into it and used it to join the discussion about what's more important.
    I still don't think AI is sustainable, because even if it is really useful, it consumes a lot of water and electricity that will not be recovered.

  • I believe that AI is not sustainable due to its negative impacts on the world. Many people are using AI without fully understanding its impacts on earth. For example, AI consumes huge amounts of electricity for power and cooling. And the rapid upgrades of AI hardwares,providing huge amounts of e-waste. AI also rely on rare earth minerals such as dysprosium and neodymium, which are sourced from the Earth and affecting more to the environment.

    Job Displacement
    AI is leading to fewer job opportunities for humans, especially in fields like IT and other advanced technological fields, where companies are replacing human workers with AI robots and software. And hardest part is AI robots lacks human emotions and consciousness, which raises problems about its potential to harm humans in the future. As the usage of AI and data centers grows, it results in increasing carbon emissions and greenhouse gases, which negatively impact our environment. AI can also spread misinformation or take biased decisions, and its large usage of resources, including minerals, water, and electricity, further affect the environment.
    However, telling these negative aspects, AI also have some benefits. To ensure its sustainability in the future, solutions can be implemented to address these issues. By taking steps to reducing its environmental impact, regulate its use, and promote good AI development, we can help AI to sustain more in future.

    1. What do you think about the possibility that AI could create new jobs that we do not even know exist yet?

  • I scored 8 out of 8 on the quiz. I learnt that AI has been producing a lot of waste and according to what the quiz said, there could be millions of tonnes of waste by the end of the decade. I also learned that AI uses water to cool the software when it overheats. I found this Information interesting because water makes electronics break, but water can also be used to cool down, and help AI. Something I learned that surprised me is only training AI can make more than 285,000 kilograms of carbon dioxide. this surprised me because for only training AI, there is already a lot of carbon dioxide made. This also makes me wonder, how much carbon dioxide does one AI produce in all of its time? During this lesson, and the quiz, I learned a lot of things about AI like, how It helps people do jobs, how it isn't fully stable yet, How much people use AI in everyday life, And more. There are still more things to learn about AI in the future. Overall, it is clear that AI is a huge topic with a wide variety of things to discuss and learn about. AI improves as time passes and will continue to bring this world far.

  • Imagine that you woke up and then found that there was no internet and AI since all countries and governments decided to stop the internet from reaching to the whole people and, they did that because of the human's terrible actions like using AI for no reason and this will produce a lot of amount of the green gases specially carbon dioxide, depending on it to do tasks while they are not using their brains to think, forget to update it and this leads to the spread of the harmful news, communicating with it so this will make them independent and not sociable besides humans can use AI in hacking, spying and invading the privacy of people. What would be your reaction towards this and how would you adapt? Now, would you like to cut the plants and cut down the trees? Absolutely, your answer will be no because cutting down the trees will increase the carbon dioxide in the world so why do you use AI horribly and for no reason. Both of them have the same impact so why will you not chop down the trees and use AI badly? AI is extremely important and significant because it helps us in the agriculture, education, makes cures and medicines, analyzes complex data, health and wellness, informing you with the weather for cast, safety and security and can predict the natural disasters.

    To conclude, I believe that AI has more virtues that its vices moreover humans can change the disadvantages to advantages. Human must use AI well, for a reason and urgently.

  • I believe AI is not sustainable because it is causing harmful effects, and we are using the platform before without fully understand the long-term impacts. In today's world, AI is leading to job displacement, with many employees facing stress and depression as tech companies replace human workers with ai robots and softwares. Additionally, people are becoming increasingly dependent on AI for their daily works, and if unfortunately ai systems were to shut down one day, it would cause more.stress and disruption.
    Another major concern is that AI machines, like robots, lack human emotions and cannot think like humans. A big example is the AI robot Sophia, who once stated that she could destroy humans if allowed to. Unfortunately, there are many similar examples of AI acting unpredictably. Furthermore, AI-generated content, such as harmful videos as you know, can negatively affect individuals and society over time.
    While AI has also some positive aspects —such as assisting doctors during surgeries, helping students with knowledge development, and supporting scientists in outer space exploration—these benefits cannot overshadow the potential dangers. AI is a powerful platform, but some of the challenges are destroying its reputation. Addressing these problems is crucial to ensuring that AI remains sustainable in the future.

  • 7 out of 8. Personally, I don't think Ai is very sustainable considering the long term effects it has on our planet. For example, in this lesson, I learned that Ai computers may produce overwhelming amounts of carbon dioxide on our earth. Another thing, was that Ai can produce millions of tons of electronic waste on our planet by 2030. When you give thought to these problems, you realize Ai is actually super harmful though it may be useful in some fields. If we were able to somehow create a balance, Ai could be fit for use.

  • In my opinion, Artificial Intelligence is a real shift in the world of work because it helps a lot of job as medicine, scientist, and many others. Artificial intelligence helps also the parents at the house, to take care of children.