apidays Helsinki & North 2025 - Agentic AI: A Friend or Foe?, Merja Kajava (Aavista)

Agentic AI: A Friend or Foe?
Merja Kajava, Founder at Aavista

apidays Helsinki & North 2025 - APIs for Innovation, Intelligence, and Impact
June 3 & 4, 2025

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1. Aavista Oy Merja Kajava apidays Helsinki & North 2025 Agentic AI – A Friend or a Foe
2. “What is the carbon footprint of a ChatGPT query compared to a Google query?” Photo credit: NASA / Alex Gerst
3. Vanderbauwhede (2024): “AI-generated answers to conventional search queries dramatically increase the energy consumption. By our estimates, energy demand increase by 60-70 times.” Vanderbauwhede, W. (2024). Estimating the Increase in Emissions caused by AI-augmented Search. https://doi.org/10.48550/ARXIV.2407.16894
4. Moving from chatbots to Agentic AI
5. Tools Orchestration Model Integrate to storage and 3rd party services Reason with goals Goals, profiles and guidance What are the elements of Agentic AI
6. Connecting agents
7. Agent-to-Agent (A2A) by Google Model Context Protocol (MCP) by Anthropic “UDDI for Agents” for agent discovery “BPEL for Agents” for orchestration NLWeb by Microsoft Agent Agent Agent <MCP> Tool <MCP> Tool <MCP> Tool RSS Schema.org Protocols are emerging for agent connectivity MCP MCP MCP A2A A2A MCP API MCP Servers <NLWeb> MCP Servers
8. Sustainability AI governance Security and privacy Testing Performance Data quality Cost
9. Nothing exists until it is measured Niels Bohr
10. Carbon footprint Cost ~
11. Calculate the carbon footprint Cloud providers Data centers Service providers IPaaS API SaaS AI AWS Google Cloud Microsoft Multi-cloud Applications Carbon footprint calculators by cloud providers. Multi-cloud calculators. Open-source calculators, for example Code Carbon. Commercial calculators, for example from Dynatrace and Splunk.
12. “Processing a single query might involve over 50 LLM API calls. The calls tend to be very narrow and specific. Different kinds of calls may be to different models.” NLWeb – Chat query example https://github.com/microsoft/NLWeb/blob/main/docs/life-of-a-chat-query.md Case NLWeb – Chat query example
13. Choose models carefully
14. AI Energy Score - Extractive Q & A by Huggingface Each Gen AI model is different Luccione et al. (2024): “Multi-purpose models are more energy-intensive.” Luccioni, S., Jernite, Y., & Strubell, E. (2024). Power Hungry Processing: Watts Driving the Cost of AI Deployment? The 2024 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, 85–99. https://doi.org/10.1145/3630106.3658542
15. Multimodal AI brings new challenges Multimodal streaming “Agent architecture with bi-directional event streaming running 24/7”
16. Multimodal AI From text prompt to images,videos and speech Luccioni, S., Jernite, Y., & Strubell, E. (2024). Power Hungry Processing: Watts Driving the Cost of AI Deployment? The 2024 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, 85–99. https://doi.org/10.1145/3630106.3658542 “Tasks involving images are more energy- and carbon-intensive compared to those involving text alone.”
17. Energy certificate for AI agents Photo credit: Energiakartoitus Oy
18. Key takeaways Choose the minimal solution YAGNI Follow up the costs Measure the carbon footprint
19. Technology is the answer, but what was the question? Cedric Price
20. The Data Refinery Company Merja Kajava https://www.linkedin.com/in/merjakajava