Podcast / Tech Won’t Save Us / Jul 18, 2024

Generative AI Is a Climate Disaster

On this episode of Tech Won’t Save Us, Sasha Luccioni on the climate impacts of AI.

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Europe is Gutting Its Tech Regulations w/ Aline Blankertz | Tech Won’t Save Us
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Paris Marx is joined by Aline Blankertz to discuss how right-wing governments and international corporations in the European Union are pushing to gut tech regulations with the goal of boosting AI development in hope of improving economic growth and geopolitical standing.

Aline Blankertz is a cofounder of Structural Integrity.

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On this episode of Tech Won’t Save Us, Paris Marx is joined by Sasha Luccioni to discuss the catastrophic environmental costs of the generative AI being increasingly shoved into every tech product we touch. Sasha Luccioni is an artificial intelligence researcher and climate lead at Hugging Face.

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Europe is Gutting Its Tech Regulations w/ Aline Blankertz | Tech Won’t Save Us
byThe Nation Magazine

Paris Marx is joined by Aline Blankertz to discuss how right-wing governments and international corporations in the European Union are pushing to gut tech regulations with the goal of boosting AI development in hope of improving economic growth and geopolitical standing.

Aline Blankertz is a cofounder of Structural Integrity.

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Paris Marx is a tech critic and host of the Tech Won’t Save Us podcast. He writes the Disconnect newsletter and is the author of Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation.

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