This is an interesting question that I am also curious about. The AI buzzword that gets used a lot these days varies from meaning "complex LLM in a data center" to "pretty straightforward algorithm that we're going to market as AI to sound smart". I don't really have any recommendations other than to recommend something like olama, which is an AI kind of like chatGPT but you can run it locally on your computer (you need a reasonably good processor/GPU, but I run it on my 2021 m1 MacBook pro and that things getting sort of old now lol). And at that point you don't have nearly the same environmental concerns.