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Risks to the environment

"Growing compute use in general- purpose AI development and deployment has rapidly increased energy usage associated with general- purpose AI. This trend might continue, potentially leading to strongly increasing CO2 emissions."

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AI Risk6. Socioeconomic and Environmental6.6 > Environmental harm3 - Other

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Domain6. Socioeconomic and EnvironmentalThe broad risk area this belongs to.

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Domain6. Socioeconomic and Environmental
Subdomain6.6 > Environmental harm
Entity1 - Human
Intent2 - Unintentional
Timing3 - Other
CategorySystemic Risks
SubcategoryRisks to the environment

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