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You can find a list of press articles covering my work or quoting me at the bottom of this page.
My work is regularly covered by the press including the New York Times (4x), the Wall Street Journal, WIRED (4x), Forbes, and MIT Tech Review (2x). See below for some highlights.
In addition, I am regularly interviewed about AI on topics of public interest, especially the climate impact of AI (BCC World Service's Newshour, NPR's Science Friday, KTVU Fox, etc.), how training datasets are created for large AI models (New York Times Magazine, Washington Post, etc.), and AI ethics (TechCrunch, The New Yorker, etc.).
Please reach out to me at jessed@allenai.org for press inquiries.
List of press (incomplete)
Forbes, "What AI Is The Best? Chatbot Arena Relies On Millions Of Human Votes", Robert Hart 2024-07-18
NPR's Morning Edition, "Artificial intelligence's thirst for electricity", Dara Kerr 2024-07-10
POLITICO Tech, "How much energy does AI use? A lot, actually", Steven Overly 2024-06-20
BBC World Service, Newshour (interview starts at 45 minutes), Rebecca Kesby 2024-05-05
San Francisco Examiner, "Into thin air: How AI’s water use could alter watersheds",Troy Wolverton 2024-05-05
DW News (Germany's public national broadcaster), "How AI causes serious environmental problems (but might also provide solutions)", Emily Leshner 2024-04-29
San Francisco Examiner, "Popularity of ChatGPT, AI tools comes with big climate cost", Troy Wolverton 2024-04-28
The Week, "The complex environmental toll of artificial intelligence", Devika Rao 2024-03-21
South China Morning Post, "Let’s talk about how to power AI, the new energy-guzzling industry", David Dodwell 2024-03-17
Breaking Latest News, "AI is increasing energy and water demand worldwide" 2024-03-11
TechCrunch, "Why most AI benchmarks tell us so little", Kyle Wiggers 2024-03-07
BNN Breaking, "Generative AI Race Heats Up: Anthropic vs. Inflection AI Challenge OpenAI's Dominance", Ebenezer Mensah 2024-03-07
The Guardian, "AI likely to increase energy use and accelerate climate misinformation – report", Oliver Milman 2024-03-07
Cryptopolitan, "Climate Change Faces Dual Impact From AI", Randa Moses 2024-03-07
Analytics India Magazine, "This Bengaluru-based AI Startup is Helping Reduce Carbon Footprint", Shyam Nandan Upadhyay 2024-03-06
Undark, "The Growing Environmental Footprint Of Generative AI", David Berreby 2024-02-20
Medriva, "Addressing the Environmental Impact of Generative AI: A Call for Sustainable Development", Ethan Sulliva 2024-02-20
Mother Jones, "Another Big Question About AI: Its Carbon Footprint", David Berreby 2024-02-19
NPR's Science Friday, "Understanding And Curbing Generative AI’s Energy Consumption", Ira Flatow 2024-02-16
Yale e360, "As Use of A.I. Soars, So Does the Energy and Water It Requires", David Berreby 2024-02-09
KTVU Fox, "AI Revolution: Unintended consequences for the environment", Kait McAfee 2024-01-04
VentureBeat, "A free AI image dataset, removed for child sex abuse images, has come under fire before", Sharon Goldman 2023-12-20
NotebookCheck, "AI image uses as much energy as a phone charge — are ChatGPT & co. harmful to the climate?", Nicole Dominikowski 2023-12-20
Business Insider, "The version of Google's Gemini you can use right now doesn't beat OpenAI's GPT-4", Kai Xiang Teo 2023-12-07
Scientific American, "AI's Climate Impact Goes Beyond Its Emissions", Jude Coleman 2023-12-07
MIT Technology Review, "Making an image with generative AI uses as much energy as charging your phone", Melissa Heikkilä 2023-12-01
The New Yorker, "How Moral Can A.I. Really Be?", Paul Bloom 2023-11-29
New York Times, "An Industry Insider Drives an Open Alternative to Big Tech’s A.I.", Steve Lohr 2023-10-23
WIRED, "AI Is Becoming More Powerful—but Also More Secretive", Will Knight 2023-10-19
Scientific American, "Your Personal Information Is Probably Being Used to Train Generative AI Models", Lauren Leffer 2023-10-19
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, "Popping the chatbot hype balloon", Sara Goudarzi 2023-09-12
Capital Brief, "AI is growing at an extraordinary pace. So is its carbon footprint", Dan Van Boom 2023-09-06
Capital Brief, "Nvidia basks in the glow of the AI summer", Dan Van Boom 2023-08-25
The Atlantic, "The Internet’s Next Great Power Suck", Matteo Wong 2023-08-23
TechCrunch, "AI2 drops biggest open dataset yet for training language models", Devin Coldewey 2023-08-18
GeekWire, "Allen Institute for AI takes new approach to managing AI risks and promoting transparency", Richard Yonck 2023-08-07
Digital Technology Guru, "Artificial Intelligence Institute Develops Impact Licenses to Promote Transparency", Kathryn Hernandez 2023-08-07
Communications of the ACM, "The Carbon Footprint of Artificial Intelligence", Keith Kirkpatrick 2023-07-25
New York Times, "Wikipedia's Moment of Truth", Jon Gertner 2023-07-18
GeekWire, "AI2 researchers release new multimodal approach to boost AI capabilities using images and audio", Richard Yonck 2023-04-29
Wall Street Journal, "Chatbots Are Digesting the Internet. The Internet Wants to Get Paid.", Christopher Mims 2023-04-29
The Register, "4chan and other web sewers scraped up into Google's mega-library for training ML", Katyanna Quach 2023-04-20
Washington Post, "Inside the secret list of websites that make AI like ChatGPT sound smart", Kevin Schaul, Szu Yu Chen, and Nitasha Tiku 2023-04-19
WIRED, "Review: We Put ChatGPT, Bing Chat, and Bard to the Test", Lauren Goode 2023-03-30
TechCrunch, "Can AI really be protected from text-based attacks?", Kyle Wiggers 2023-02-24
Fast Company, "AI can help address climate change—as long as it doesn’t exacerbate it", Jesse Dodge 2023-02-15
Analytics India Magazine, "Meta’s ‘No Language Left Behind’ 450GB training dataset reproduced & released online", Bhuvana Kamath 2022-08-25
MIT Technology Review, "These simple changes can make AI research much more energy efficient", Tammy Xu 2022-07-06
GeekWire, "AI2 researchers win ‘Test-of-Time’ award that honors long-lasting influence for AI-related papers", Richard Yonck 2022-05-25
New York Times, "Can a Machine Learn Morality?", Cade Metz 2021-11-19
IEEE Spectrum, "Making Information Tech Greener Can Help Address the Climate Crisis", San Murugesan 2021-10-07
Unite.AI, "Minority Voices ‘Filtered’ Out of Google Natural Language Processing Models", Martin Anderson 2021-09-24
The Register, AI caramba, those neural networks are power-hungry: Counting the environmental cost of artificial intelligence, Danny Bradbury 2021-09-13
WIRED, "The Efforts to Make Text-Based AI Less Racist and Terrible", Khari Johnson 2021-06-17
TechWireAsia, "Is ‘Green AI’ the same as environmental AI?", Joe Devanesan 2021-01-19
Guest on Practical AI Podcast, Green AI, Chris Benson and Daniel Whitenack 2021-02-04
WIRED, "The Dark Side of Big Tech’s Funding for AI Research", Tom Simonite 2020-12-10
Forbes, "Deep Learning's Carbon Emissions Problem", Rob Toews 2020-06-17
New York Times, "At Tech's Leading Edge, Worry About a Concentration of Power", Steve Lohr 2019-09-26
