{
  "id": 13635421,
  "title": "What Should an AI Impact Receipt Actually Contain?",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/11/what-should-an-ai-impact-receipt-actually-contain",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-11T04:02:09.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/carbonlayer/what-should-an-ai-impact-receipt-actually-contain-2j10"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "An AI Impact Receipt should contain more than just environmental impact figures to be genuinely useful to developers. It should provide context, provenance, and an honest account of uncertainty. This includes identifying the request and distinguishing the requested model from the executed model, providing details on tokens used and latency, distinguishing between estimated and actual usage costs, and determining the energy and carbon values, including the system boundary and evidence classification. The receipt should also explain the energy basis, carbon intensity source, geographic and temporal assumptions, and accounting methods used.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}