AI, the Planet & Autonomy

Lesson 7 of 8 11 minIncluded with Builder

AI's environmental cost and the risks of increasingly autonomous systems — and how to build responsibly on both.

What you'll learn

  • AI's environmental cost and the risks of increasingly autonomous systems — and how to build responsibly on both.
  • How ai, the planet & autonomy fits into the AI Ethics, Society & Impact track
  • A hands-on project step you can put in your portfolio

The hands-on project

For a project idea: name one way you'd make it more energy/compute-efficient (smaller model, caching, fewer calls), and one action you would NOT let it do autonomously (requiring human approval) — and why.

The full brief, voice tutor walkthrough, and feedback are inside the lesson.

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