Environmental Impact of AI (Special) Ep 35: Dr Nadine Moustafa & Dr Hanya Ahmed

Can AI be both powerful and sustainable? Or are we trading the planet for progress? 

Topics discussed

• What is AI and how to build an AI model. 
• Differences in AI technologies. 
• The cost of running large data centres. 
• Carbon accounting of AI. 

Host 

• Dr. Nadine Moustafa, Research Associate at Imperial, specialising in carbon management and decarbonisation technologies.  

Guest  

• Dr. Hanya Ahmed  -  postdoctoral research assistant at the Royal Veterinary College and Queen Mary University, with the school of electronic engineering and computing science. She specializes in building and training AI models for industry and medical technology. 

Timecode & Chapters

00:00 - Introduction

01:30 - What is AI?   

03:00 - Building AI Models   

06:30 - Environmental Costs of AI Training   

09:00 - Efficiency vs. Environmental Impact   

12:00 - Genetic Frameworks in AI   

14:30 - Cloud vs. Edge AI   

17:00 - Carbon Accounting in AI   

19:30 - Industry Awareness and Responsibility   

22:00 - Future Tools and Benchmarks   

24:00 - Final Thoughts   

Nadine's links: LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/nadine-moustafa-ph-d-5831a1a7/ 

Imperial profile - https://profiles.imperial.ac.uk/n.mou... 

Hanya’s links: https://www.seresearch.qmul.ac.uk/electronics/people/hahmed/ 

Produced by Annemarie van Basten 

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