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What It Will Take to Make AI Sustainable
Key takeaways
- The rush to build out AI at all costs has been reinforced by the Trump administration, which is also rolling back environmental protections.
- Despite these headwinds, Sasha Luccioni, an AI sustainability researcher, thinks that demand for more transparency in AI, from both businesses and individuals, is higher than ever from the customer side.
- She has also been an outspoken critic of major AI companies that, she says, are deliberately withholding energy and sustainability information from the public.
Why this matters: a development in AI with implications for how people work, create, and decide.
Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images Comment Loader Save Story Save this story Comment Loader Save Story Save this story Building AI sustainably seems like a pipe dream as tech giants that previously made promises to cut emissions have been racing to build out massive data centers powered by fossil fuels.
The rush to build out AI at all costs has been reinforced by the Trump administration, which is also rolling back environmental protections.
Despite these headwinds, Sasha Luccioni, an AI sustainability researcher, thinks that demand for more transparency in AI, from both businesses and individuals, is higher than ever from the customer side.
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