Press release: seizing AI opportunities for a responsible digital future
While AI represents a significant source of energy consumption, it is also a powerful tool for decarbonization and environmental initiatives. The report is thus structured around six major axes designed to explore the intersections between AI, sustainability and current regulations:
- Generative AI: a promising opportunity, but with significant sustainability and ethical challenges. Companies are aware of this, but are currently ill-equipped to balance the benefits of these technologies with their environmental and social impact.
- Green AI: the report explores the potential of green AI through innovative Green AI strategies, promoting eco-design, process optimization and waste reduction.
- AI for Green: drawing on real-life cases, the report illustrates the role of pioneering companies using AI as a driving force for decarbonization. Companies are exploring Green AI and AI for Green in disparate ways, but the potential for beneficial cycles emerges clearly through this report.
- Data at the heart of AI: data quality and management are proving to be major issues. The report highlights the challenges associated with data quality, as well as its pivotal role as a lever for the sustainable transformation of organizations.
- Towards ethical AI: this chapter addresses the challenges of ethics and responsible AI. It examines current corporate practices, inconsistencies and strategies for a responsible future.
- A regulatory framework: new regulations, such as the CSRD, the AI Act and the Data Act, are analyzed as potential drivers of change, requiring companies to review their working practices and environmental impact. The report highlights the challenges and opportunities for sustainable AI. Now is the time to adopt an innovative vision of AI, transforming it into a beneficial tool for the economy and the environment.
Véronique Torner
Numeum
President
If AI is synonymous with innovation and progress, it is crucial to develop it with the aim of using it responsibly and ethically. This is the aim of Numeum’s Responsible Digital program, which aims to support all digital companies by coordinating initiatives such as Planet’Tech Care and Ethical AI.
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Ana Semedo
G9+ Institute
Head of AI
Our collaboration, by crossing complementary perspectives, has enabled a 360° understanding of the immense potential of AI for Green and Green AI. No AI without data. After digital transformation, AI and data transformation. Organizations will then face an ambivalent alliance between technology, business and ecology, and it’s up to us to turn this into innovative and resilient horizons.
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Jean-Claude Laroche
Cigref
Chairman
This study, carried out by Numeum and the G9+ Institute and to which Cigref members contributed, helps to set the terms of the debate between the environmental impacts of AI on the one hand, and the benefits of AI in the ecological transition on the other. The strategic orientations of our different organizations converge on the need for access to common measurement standards that will enable AI projects, and particularly generative AI, to be arbitrated with full knowledge of the facts.
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Pierre Monget
Hub France IA
Program Manager
We’re at a real turning point in the era of massive AI adoption across all sectors and business domains. Either we get to grips quickly and systematically with the issue of the environmental footprint of AIs, which is exploding, driven in particular by the rise of Generative AI. And we do this by adopting the right reflexes and best practices from the initialization phase of an AI project right through to the end of the lifecycle of AI models. In other words, AI, which today represents hope in the fight against climate change, will quickly become part of the problem itself, with a highly unfavorable benefit/environmental impact ratio.
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