aceThe power of AI: balancing ethics and harm for the environmental justice field
Abstract Artificial intelligence, after the boom of generative AI, is beginning to shape environmental decision-making, at the same moment that environmental justice (EJ) communities face intensifying ecological harm, federal disinvestment, and data erasure. This paper examines the dual tensions AI presents for the EJ field: its potential as a tool for democratizing data access and amplifying community knowledge, and its reproduction of the very hierarchies EJ seeks to dismantle. We document harms across several…
AI in environmental decision-making can reproduce hierarchies that environmental justice work seeks to dismantle, including environmental racism in data center siting and energy demand, data bias, and privacy risks.
The abstract presents a conceptual and experience-based framework and does not report measured outcomes showing that the proposed community-governed paradigm works in practice.
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- Peer-reviewedAI and Ethics2026-10-16
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Truvace Impact Record TRV-2026-1748, v1: “The power of AI: balancing ethics and harm for the environmental justice field.” Truvace, 2026-10-17. /record/TRV-2026-1748 (accessed at citation time). sha256 5e23de3f0c192de9…
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