BackEnvironmental harms
Environmental harms
Risk Domain
The development and operation of AI systems causing environmental harm, such as through energy consumption of data centers, or material and carbon footprints associated with AI hardware.
depletion or contamination of natural resources, and damage to built environments... that may occur throughout the lifecycle of digital technologies [170, 237] from “crale (mining) to usage (consumption) to grave (waste)”(p. 733)
Entity— Who or what caused the harm
Intent— Whether the harm was intentional or accidental
Timing— Whether the risk is pre- or post-deployment
Part of Societal System Harms
Other risks from Shelby et al. (2023) (24)
Representational Harms
1.1 Unfair discrimination and misrepresentationOtherUnintentionalPost-deployment
Representational Harms > Stereotyping social groups
1.1 Unfair discrimination and misrepresentationAI systemUnintentionalPost-deployment
Representational Harms > Demeaning social groups
1.1 Unfair discrimination and misrepresentationAI systemUnintentionalPost-deployment
Representational Harms > Erasing social groups
1.3 Unequal performance across groupsHumanUnintentionalOther
Representational Harms > Alienating social groups
1.1 Unfair discrimination and misrepresentationAI systemUnintentionalPost-deployment
Representational Harms > Denying people the opportunity to self-identify
1.1 Unfair discrimination and misrepresentationAI systemUnintentionalPost-deployment