{
  "id": 18718,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.11830",
  "title": "Quantifying the Relationship Between Clinical Safety and Environmental Impact in Therapeutic LLMs",
  "summary": "arXiv:2608.11830v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The deployment of large language models (LLMs) in mental health contexts raises questions about the relationship between clinical safety and environmental cost. In this paper, we examine this relationship by combining K-Bench clinical safety scores with EcoLogits life-cycle assessment estimates across 47 supported model configurations. We evaluate model performance and environmental impact across four dimensions: energy use, carbon emissions, water",
  "authors": "Alireza A. Safaei, Laura M. Vowels, Matthew J. Vowels, Apoorv Jha, Shekoufeh Rahimi",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "healthcare,environment",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-08-13T04:00:00.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-13T05:10:37.786Z",
  "source_slug": "arxiv-cscy",
  "source_name": "arXiv cs.CY",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CY/recent",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/18718",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.11830",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}