Yves here. Rob Urie’s wide-ranging article takes on the long and (save at its outset) deliberate failure of US environmental policy and links it to the domination of the interests of capital. He then turns to AI’s underperformance for its professed uses and contends that its more plausible implementation is for mass surveillance. Urie does not tie these discussions together tidily even though he has left the informational bread crumbs to do so. The key point is one that has bizarrely been ignored in many recent debates over AI: its enormous energy use and the further climate-wrecking impact satisfying that...
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