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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Artificial intelligence.
(JLStock / Shutterstock)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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Paris Marx is joined by Cam Wilson to discuss the new social media age limit in Australia, including how successful the rollout has been so far and the missed opportunities of taking a more nuanced regulatory approach.
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