Saturday, January 11, 2025

The Use of AI in Sustainability Initiatives

Before I begin, I'd like to state that I fully appreciate the environmental effect of the use of resources required to power AI. However, I think at some point there has to be a net value. I'm working on an aggregator for ethical and sustainable fashion brands and while I don't believe in chucking AI capabilities into products that would be just fine without them(I don't currently plan on employing AI, no use for it), we as founders have to calculate if using a specific AI/ML capability still results in a net positive sustainable value. There are many variables when it comes to determining something like this. I'm definitely not familiar with most of them, however, part of the reason why sustainable fashion is growing slowly rather than quickly is the intransigence of innovators in the space to adopt these emerging technologies without determining if using them creates significant value for their users and an overall net positive sustainable value for the environment. There has to be a way to determine this or sustainable fashion will miss the train on innovation...again.



Submitted January 11, 2025 at 12:25PM by herlock03 https://ift.tt/CpDbNXe

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