AGI Strategies

person

Emma Strubell

CMU professor; energy cost of AI pioneer

CMU professor whose 2019 paper on the carbon footprint of NLP training was the first widely-cited quantification of AI's environmental cost. Has continued to publish on energy efficiency and sustainability.

current Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University

Strategy positions

Governance firstendorses

Lead with regulation, treaties, liability regimes

Argues energy and carbon should be first-class constraints on AI training.

Training a single large NLP model can emit as much carbon as five cars over their lifetimes.
§ paperEnergy and Policy Considerations for Deep Learning in NLP· arXiv· 2019-06-05· faithful paraphrase

Closest strategy neighbours

by jaccard overlap

Other people whose strategy tags overlap with Emma Strubell's. Overlap is on tag identity, not stance; opposites can show up if they reference the same tags.

  • Abeba Birhane

    Abeba Birhane

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    Mozilla Foundation senior advisor; AI ethics researcher

  • Adam Tooze

    Adam Tooze

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    Columbia historian; Chartbook newsletter

  • Adrian Weller

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    Cambridge professor; Alan Turing Institute fellow

  • Adrienne LaFrance

    Adrienne LaFrance

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    The Atlantic executive editor; technology critic

  • Adrienne Williams

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    Former Amazon warehouse worker; AI labour activist

  • Akash Wasil

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    Encode Justice; AI policy advocate

Record last updated 2026-04-25.