Sec. 5. Artificial intelligence environmental impacts consortium
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The Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology shall, in consultation with the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Secretary of Energy, and such others as the Director considers appropriate, convene a consortium of stakeholders, including members from academia, civil society, and industry, to identify the future measurements, methodologies, standards, and other appropriate needs, in order to measure and report the full range of environmental impacts of artificial intelligence.
The Director may determine the location of the consortium within the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The goals of the consortium shall include the following: Facilitating consistent, comparable reporting on the environmental impacts of the full lifecycle of artificial intelligence models, systems, and hardware. According to technical feasibility, the development or cataloging of open source software and hardware tools and other resources designed to facilitate the measurement of environmental impacts of artificial intelligence models, systems, and hardware.
Providing recommendations on how to mitigate the negative, and promote the positive, environmental impacts of artificial intelligence.