Embedding Ethics and Trustworthiness for Sustainable AI in Earth Sciences: Where Do We Begin?

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Abstract

As in many other research domains, Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques have been increasing their footprint in Earth Sciences to extract meaningful information from the large amount of high-detailed data available from multiple sensor modalities. While on the one hand the existing success cases endorse the great potential of AI to help address open challenges in ES, on the other hand on-going discussions and established lessons from studies on the sustainability, ethics and trustworthiness of AI must be taken into consideration if the community is to ensure that its research efforts move into directions that effectively benefit the society and the environment. In this paper, we discuss insights gathered from a brief literature review on the subtopics of AI Ethics, Sustainable AI, AI Trustworthiness and AI for Earth Sciences in an attempt to identify some of the promising directions and key needs to successfully bring these concepts together.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIGARSS 2022 - 2022 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages4639-4642
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781665427920
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022
Event2022 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2022 - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Duration: Jul 17 2022Jul 22 2022

Publication series

NameInternational Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)
Volume2022-July

Conference

Conference2022 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2022
Country/TerritoryMalaysia
CityKuala Lumpur
Period07/17/2207/22/22

Funding

We thank Vandy Tombs for her valuable comments during the preparation of this manuscript. We acknowledge that this manuscript has been authored by UT-Battelle, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the U.S. Department of Energy. The United States Government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the United States Government retains a non-exclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, world-wide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for United States Government purposes. DOE will provide public access to these results of federally sponsored research in accordance with the DOE Public Access Plan (http://energy.gov/downloads/doe-public-access-plan).

FundersFunder number
U.S. Department of Energy

    Keywords

    • AI ethics
    • AI trustworthiness
    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Earth Sciences
    • Sustainable AI

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