Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Workshop 2024The AAAI-24 Workshop Program will be held in conjunction with the 38th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence from 26 – 27 Feb 2024, encompassing 35 workshops covering a wide range of topics in artificial intelligence. Led by Dr Li Xiaoli, Principal Investigator from A*STAR’s Centre for Frontier AI Research (CFAR), we invite interested individuals for paper submissions to W31: Sustainable AI, focusing on Environmental Sustainability and Societal Sustainability. W31: Sustainable AI
While artificial intelligence (AI) has made remarkable achievements across various domains, there remains legitimate concerns regarding its sustainability. The pursuit of enhanced accuracy in tackling large-scale problems has led to the adoption of increasingly deep neural networks, resulting in elevated energy consumption and the emission of carbon dioxide, which contributes to climate change. As an illustration, researchers estimated that the training of a state-of-the-art deep learning NLP model alone generated approximately 626,000 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions. The environmental sustainability of AI is not the only concern; its societal impact is equally significant. Ethical considerations surrounding AI, including fairness, privacy, explainability, and safety, have gained increasing attention. For instance, biases and privacy issues associated with AI can limit its widespread application in various domains. Furthermore, AI has the potential to make a profound societal impact by directly addressing contemporary sustainability challenges. Climate modelling, urban planning, and design (for mitigating urban heat islands or optimising renewable energy deployment), as well as the development of green technologies (such as advanced battery materials or optimised wind/ocean turbine design), are areas where AI techniques can be extensively applied. Leveraging AI in these areas is crucial for ensuring a net benefit to sustainability.TopicsSubmissions should explicitly focus on the sustainability perspective, encompassing
Format of WorkshopThe workshop is a full-day event. We plan to invite two distinguished keynote speakers and organise a panel discussion where participants can engage in an exchange of ideas on critical topics related to sustainable AI. Additionally, we will consider all submissions for both oral and poster presentations.Selected papers will have the opportunity to submit their work to a special issue on Sustainable AI in collaboration with our partnering journal, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence (TETCI), and the World Scientific Annual Review of AI. We are also in the process of creating an edited book on sustainable AI based on selected papers and invited papers, set to be published by World Scientific.Submission RequirementsPapers must adhere to AAAI style Author kit in PDF format while maintaining anonymity. Submissions consist of up to 6 pages of technical content plus additional reference pages.Workshop ChairsLi Xiaoli (Nanyang Technological University/A*STAR, Singapore) | xlli@ntu.edu.sg; xlli@i2r.a-star.edu.sgJoey Tianyi Zhou (A*STAR CFAR, Singapore) | zhouty@cfar.a-star.edu.sgCallie Hao (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA | callie.hao@ece.gatech.eduVijay Janapa Redi (Harvard University, USA) | vj@eecs.harvard.eduLu Yung-Hsiang (Purdue University, USA) | yunglu@purdue.eduDeadlines
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