{"id":587643,"date":"2023-08-18T18:00:09","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T15:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/ai-could-fall-short-on-climate-change-due-to-biased-datasets-study-finds\/"},"modified":"2023-08-18T18:00:09","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T15:00:09","slug":"ai-could-fall-short-on-climate-change-due-to-biased-datasets-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/ai-could-fall-short-on-climate-change-due-to-biased-datasets-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"#AI could fall short on climate change due to biased datasets, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_89 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6af5b6fa7e2c4\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6af5b6fa7e2c4\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/ai-could-fall-short-on-climate-change-due-to-biased-datasets-study-finds\/#Call_for_globally_inclusive_datasets\" >Call for globally inclusive datasets<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<div id=\"article-main-content\">\n                            <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Among the many benefits of artificial intelligence touted by its proponents is the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a>\u2019s potential ability to help solve climate change. If this is indeed the case, the recent step changes in AI couldn\u2019t have come any sooner. This summer, evidence has continued to mount that Earth is already transitioning from warming to boiling.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, as intense as the hype has been around AI over the past months, there is also a lengthy list of concerns accompanying it. Its prospective use in spreading disinformation for one, along with potential discrimination, privacy, and security issues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Furthermore, researchers at the University of Cambridge, UK, have found that bias in the datasets used to train AI models could limit their <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>lication as a just tool in the fight against global warming and its impact on planetary and human health.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As is often the case when it comes to global bias, it is a matter of Global North vs. South. With most data gathered by researchers and businesses with privileged access to technology, the effects of climate change will, invariably, be seen from a limited perspective. As such, biased AI has the potential to misrepresent climate information. Meaning, the most vulnerable will suffer the most dire consequences.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Call_for_globally_inclusive_datasets\"><\/span><strong>Call for globally inclusive datasets<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"inarticle-wrapper latest channel-cta hs-embed-tnw\">\n<div id=\"hs-embed-tnw\" class=\"channel-cta-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"channel-cta-img\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/events.tnw\/hardfork-2018\/uploads\/visuals\/tnw-newsletter.png\"\/><\/div>\n<p><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/events.tnw\/hardfork-2018\/uploads\/visuals\/tnw-newsletter.png\"\/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<div class=\"channel-cta-input\">\n<p class=\"channel-cta-title\">The &lt;3 of EU tech<\/p>\n<p class=\"channel-cta-tagline\">The latest rumblings from the EU tech scene, a story from our wise ol&#8217; founder Boris, and some questionable AI art. It&#8217;s free, every week, in your inbox. Sign up now!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s44168-023-00056-3\">a paper<\/a> titled \u201cHarnessing human and machine intelligence for planetary-level climate action\u201d published in the prestigious journal Nature, the authors admit that \u201cusing AI to account for the continually changing factors of climate change allows us to generate better-informed predictions about environmental changes, allowing us to deploy mitigation strategies earlier.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This, they say, remains one of the most promising applications of AI in climate action planning. However, only if datasets used to train the systems are globally inclusive.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWhen the information on climate change is over-represented by the work of well-educated individuals at high-ranking institutions within the Global North, AI will only see climate change and climate solutions through their eyes,\u201d said primary author and Cambridge Zero Fellow Dr Ramit Debnath.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In contrast, those who have less access to technology and reporting mechanisms will be underrepresented in the digital sources AI developers rely upon.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cNo data is clean or without prejudice, and this is particularly problematic for AI which relies entirely on digital information,\u201d the paper\u2019s co-author Professor Emily Shuckburgh said. \u201cOnly with an active awareness of this data injustice can we begin to tackle it, and consequently, to build better and more trustworthy AI-led climate solutions.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The authors advocate for human-in-the-loop AI designs that can contribute to a planetary epistemic web supporting climate action, directly enable mitigation and adaptation interventions, and reduce the data injustices associated with AI pretraining datasets.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The need of the hour, the study concludes, is to be sensitive to digital inequalities and injustices within the machine intelligence community, especially when AI is used as an instrument for addressing planetary health challenges like climate change.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If we fail to address these issues, the authors argue, there could be catastrophic outcomes impacting societal collapse and planetary stability, including not fulfilling any climate mitigation pathways.<\/span>\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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