Managing Sustainability Tensions in Artificial Intelligence: Insights from Paradox Theory

Eleanor Mill; Wolfgang Garn; Nick Ryman-Tubb

doi:10.1145/3514094.3534175

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Managing Sustainability Tensions in Artificial Intelligence: Insights from Paradox Theory

Eleanor Mill, Wolfgang Garn and Nick Ryman-Tubb

AIES '22: Proceedings of the 2022 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society, pp.491-498

Fifth AAAI/ACM Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics and Society (AIES '22) (Oxford, 01/08/2022 - 03/08/2022)

27/07/2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3514094.3534175

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Computational thinking

Codes of ethics

Design and analysis of algorithms

Sustainability

This paper offers preliminary reflections on the sustainability tensions present in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and suggests that Paradox Theory, an approach borrowed from the strategic management literature, may help guide scholars towards innovative solutions. The benefits of AI to our society are well documented. Yet those benefits come at environmental and sociological cost, a fact which is often overlooked by mainstream scholars and practitioners. After examining the nascent corpus of literature on the sustainability tensions present in AI, this paper introduces the Accuracy-Energy Paradox and suggests how the principles of paradox theory can guide the AI community to a more sustainable solution.

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Title: Managing Sustainability Tensions in Artificial Intelligence: Insights from Paradox Theory
Creators: Eleanor Mill - University of Surrey, Surrey Business School
Wolfgang Garn - University of Surrey, Surrey Business School
Nick Ryman-Tubb
Publication Details: AIES '22: Proceedings of the 2022 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society, pp.491-498
Conference: Fifth AAAI/ACM Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics and Society (AIES '22) (Oxford, 01/08/2022 - 03/08/2022)
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM); New York, USA
Date accepted: 18/04/2022
Identifiers: 99654363702346
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Academic Unit: Surrey Business School
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