On 9 July 2025, Jana Driller presented her research on Green AI Skills - Conceptualisation and scale development as part of the last Brown-Bag event of the 2025 summer semester. In her presentation, she highlighted the increasing relevance of sustainability in the context of AI applications, particularly with regard to the rapidly growing energy and resource requirements of data centres and AI models.
She pointed out that there are currently no valid and standardised instruments for systematically recording sustainable skills in the development of AI or making them comparable. Accordingly, her research project aims to develop dimensions with which "green AI skills" such as energy-efficient programming, resource-saving data processing and sustainable selection of models and hardware can be conceptualised.
The presentation impressively demonstrated that sustainability is not only a technical challenge for the future of AI, but also an educational and skills policy challenge. In the discussion, it became clear that greater awareness and standardisation in this field are urgently needed in order to shape the resource consumption of AI applications responsibly.
