Description
“The Afterlife of AI” is a cross-border investigation by Investigate Europe and the Institute for Science and Ethics (IWE) at the University of Bonn into an overlooked environmental cost of Europe’s rapid build-out of AI infrastructure. While public debate has focused on the energy and water that AI consumes, this project turns to a later, largely unexamined stage in the lifecycle of that infrastructure, combining original scientific analysis with on-the-ground reporting across several European countries. The findings will be published across Investigate Europe’s network of media partners.
“The debate about AI’s footprint has focused almost entirely on energy and water. We want to ask a question almost no one is asking: what happens to all this hardware when it’s thrown away, and who pays the price for that?” — Nico Schmidt, Investigate Europe
Project Team
Media outlet
Investigate Europe
Berlin, Germany
https://www.investigate-europe.eu
Mei-Ling McNamara
Editorial Director
Ireland
Research organisation
Institut für Wissenschaft und Ethik (IWE) at Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
Bonn, Germany
https://www.iwe.uni-bonn.de/
Aimée van Wynsberghe
Alexander von Humboldt professor for Applied Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, IWE Bonn
Germany
