Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 Episode 43: AI Companies Gamble with Everyone's Planet

Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)

Episode 43: AI Companies Gamble with Everyone's Planet (feat. Paris Marx) - Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000

Technology journalist Paris Marx joins Alex and Emily for a conversation about the environmental harms of the giant data centers and other water- and energy-hungry infrastructure at the heart of LLMs and other generative tools like ChatGPT -- and why the hand-wavy assurances of CEOs that 'AI will...

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in which @parismarx joins @alex and me for an update on techbro fantasies of AI solving climate change + the current reality of the climate impact of “AI”.

w/thx to Christie Taylor for production!