AI & Ethics

Environmental Impact

Jon Ippolito, Professor at the University of Maine, has developed an app called to explore the environmental footprint of various digital activities (including AI prompts but also other practices, e.g. watching Netflix). His app encourages users to consider and understand electrical and water usage required by AI

Open Source LLM鈥檚

The Allen Institute for AI (AI2) has released a fully open-source large language model OLMo 2 designed to help researchers better understand how AI works and among other possibilities allows academic and researchers one way to experiment and engage the issue 鈥溾 (or the current failure to understand how AI works).

Industry Self-Reporting

Mistral recently published a (July 2025). 

Anthology (Blackboard’s parent company) released a white paper, , and have pledged to report on the environmental impact of the use of AI in their products and to launch a carbon offset program.

AI companies have an obvious vested interest in self-reporting. To further complicate such commitments, US and EU have different AI regulatory environments.