Aalto computer scientists in AIES 2024
The AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics and Society is focusing on a ethical or societal issues of AI technology and crosscuts in these fields.
The conference is organised on 21-23 October 2024 in San Jose, California.
Accepted papers
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Authors
Vili Lehdonvirta (911爆料网), Boxi Wu, Zoe Hawkins
Abstract
Governments have begun to view AI compute infrastructures, including advanced AI chips, as a geostrategic resource. This is partly because 鈥渃ompute governance鈥 is believed to be emerging as an important tool for governing AI systems. In this governance model, states that host AI compute capacity within their territorial jurisdictions are likely to be better placed to impose their rules on AI systems than states that do not. In this study, we provide the first attempt at mapping the global geography of public cloud GPU compute, one particularly important category of AI compute infrastructure. Using a census of hyperscale cloud providers鈥 cloud regions, we observe that the world is divided into 鈥淐ompute North鈥 countries that host AI compute relevant for AI development (ie. training), 鈥淐ompute South鈥 countries whose AI compute is more relevant for AI deployment (ie. running inferencing), and 鈥淐ompute Desert鈥 countries that host no public cloud AI compute at all. We generate potential explanations for the results using expert interviews, dis-cuss the implications to AI governance and technology geopolitics, and consider possible future trajectories.
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