{"id":21871,"date":"2026-05-07T13:18:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T12:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i3-cnrs.fr\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=21871"},"modified":"2026-08-06T10:14:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T09:14:15","slug":"are-there-forkers-among-ai-researchers","status":"publish","type":"actualite","link":"https:\/\/i3-cnrs.fr\/en\/actualite\/are-there-forkers-among-ai-researchers\/","title":{"rendered":"Are there &#8220;forkers&#8221; among AI researchers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>An interview with Tiphaine Viard, a researcher at i3-NOS<br \/>\nInterviewed by Isabelle Mauriac, T\u00e9l\u00e9com-Paris<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div id=\"chapo-1\" class=\"chapo chapo-1 chapo-type-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">At a time when artificial intelligence is both touted as a key driver of the ecological transition and criticized for its growing energy footprint, a question arises: what do AI researchers think of this tension? Can they, too, \u201cchange course\u201d in the face of the climate crisis?<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tiphaine Viard documented researchers\u2019 views on the environmental impact of AI in a study conducted with <a class=\"external newClass\" title=\"Simon Delarue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/simon-delarue-98aa045a\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Simon Delarue\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0 and\u00a0 <a class=\"local newClass\" title=\"Jean-Samuel Beuscart\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telecom-paris.fr\/fr\/ideas\/enjeux-environnementaux-sciences-sociales\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0Jean-Samuel Beuscart<\/a>, a professor of sociology at Sciences Po.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Their study is based on a two-pronged approach. On the one hand, it draws on a vast corpus of nearly 10,000 scientific articles devoted to the links between AI and the environment. On the other hand, it includes some fifteen in-depth interviews with researchers who, to varying degrees, have shifted the focus of their work in response to environmental concerns.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The study highlights that AI is not a neutral entity. It is intertwined with political, social, and environmental issues. Faced with this, researchers oscillate between technical optimization, strategic repositioning, and radical questioning. This diversity of responses reflects a field in flux, where academic freedom\u2014far from being a given\u2014itself becomes a subject of negotiation in the era of the climate emergency.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telecom-paris.fr\/fr\/ideas\/bifurqueurs-chercheurs-ia\">Click here to read the rest of the interview<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/podcast.ausha.co\/telecom-paris-ideas\/l-ia-a-l-epreuve-de-l-environnement-quand-les-chercheurs-remettent-leur-discipline-en-question-t-viard\">Click here to listen to the audio interview with Tiphaine Viard Viard <\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tiphaine Viard, a researcher at What stance should researchers take regarding the environmental impact of AI?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":21869,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"class_list":["post-21871","actualite","type-actualite","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","entry","has-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i3-cnrs.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/actualite\/21871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i3-cnrs.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/actualite"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i3-cnrs.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/actualite"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i3-cnrs.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i3-cnrs.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}