{"id":212981,"date":"2026-05-12T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/12\/design-tweaks-promote-responsible-ai-use-for-environmental-protection-research-shows-newsroom\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T01:05:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T05:05:14","slug":"design-tweaks-promote-responsible-ai-use-for-environmental-protection-research-shows-newsroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/12\/design-tweaks-promote-responsible-ai-use-for-environmental-protection-research-shows-newsroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Design tweaks promote responsible AI use for environmental protection, research shows | Newsroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.oregonstate.edu\/news\/design-tweaks-promote-responsible-ai-use-environmental-protection-research-shows\">Design tweaks promote responsible AI use for environmental protection, research shows | Newsroom<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.oregonstate.edu\/news\/design-tweaks-promote-responsible-ai-use-environmental-protection-research-shows\">https:\/\/news.oregonstate.edu\/news\/design-tweaks-promote-responsible-ai-use-environmental-protection-research-shows<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-12 22:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"news.oregonstate.edu\">news.oregonstate.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Artificial intelligence (AI) systems that require users to pause and reflect on their energy use and environmental impacts can reduce unnecessary AI usage.<\/li>\n<li>AI has a significant environmental footprint, with the electricity needed to train a large language model comparable to powering 120 homes for a year.<\/li>\n<li>AI&#8217;s impacts are often not disclosed or effectively communicated to the average user, limiting their ability to make environmentally conscious decisions.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Design friction&#8221; mechanisms, like prompting users to search for existing resources or specifying image details before generating a new one, can increase environmentally responsible AI use.<\/li>\n<li>Persuasive messaging (&#8220;cue-based friction&#8221;) about the environmental effects of AI increased user trust but did not significantly affect their intentions to use AI responsibly.<\/li>\n<li>Mechanisms for encouraging responsible AI use are critical as AI\u2019s energy consumption is expected to grow significantly in the coming years.<\/li>\n<li>Responsible AI use can include relying on AI only when no comparably effective tools exist, avoiding redundancies, and exiting the tool once the task is done.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Design tweaks promote responsible AI use for environmental protection, research shows | Newsroom https:\/\/news.oregonstate.edu\/news\/design-tweaks-promote-responsible-ai-use-environmental-protection-research-shows Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":212982,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/news.oregonstate.edu\/sites\/news.oregonstate.edu\/files\/styles\/facebook_1200x\/public\/2026-05\/Thumb.png?itok=kNlnVA9L","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20,18],"class_list":["post-212981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-large-language-model"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212981"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212983,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212981\/revisions\/212983"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}