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 regimesArgues 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.
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Record last updated 2026-04-25.