How can SCER play a significant role in the new EU AI Act?

[chrisxie-fw]

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Excellent linkedin post on EU AI Act, and how SCER can be just in time for it:

What does the EU AI Act mean for AI Sustainability? ✅ Requires providers of general-purpose AI models to disclose energy consumption and training compute ✅ Calls for development of harmonized standards for AI energy disclosure ✅ Encourages AI applications that mitigate climate change and biodiversity loss ✅ Calls for creation of Code of Conduct for assessing and minimizing AI's impact on the environment

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[chrisxie-fw]

Some other thoughts on regulation:

• With any regulation, there is a risk of unintended consequences. How to reduce that risk, yet help create a market environment where AI sustainability is a good business, I believe, could be a key component and a challenge for a healthy policy-making.
• Potential impact to the AI industry: Yet to be seen. So far, we’ve seen Apple and Meta exit the European market for their AI products and Services due to "unstable" regulatory conditions.
• This is where, in my opinion, the industry needs an open standard, and open source tools that are acceptable to both regulators and the commercial organizations in the market place. The SCER standard and related open source tools can help meet that need, and fill that gap. If SCER does not do it, it is certain that someone else will do it, or is doing it.