Why Sasha Luccioni wants to create Energy Star ratings for AI
Hugging Face’s climate and AI lead created a tool that helps developers estimate the carbon footprint of whatever they’re building.
Sasha Luccioni was experiencing something of a quarter-life crisis. It was early 2018, and Luccioni was working as an AI researcher at Morgan Stanley, where she spent her days thinking about how to use the rapidly advancing technology to head off financial risks. But over the course of a year in the job, Luccioni couldn’t escape the feeling that there was a far greater risk—namely, climate change—that deserved her attention.