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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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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Reimagining Our Relationship with Digital Tech w/ Paris Marx
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Paris Marx marks the beginning of 2026 by discussing some of the big themes that will be moving the conversations he’ll be having this year, particularly digital sovereignty and rethinking the value of the tech we admit into our lives.

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