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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(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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Can Europe End Its Dependence on US Tech? w/ Aline Blankertz | Tech Won't Save Us
On this episode of Tech Won't Save Us, Paris Marx is joined by Aline Blankertz to discuss whether Europe is going to finally make a serious push to end its dependence on US tech and how different European interests are trying to take advantage of those debates.
Aline Blankertz is an economist working on digital policy. She currently works with Rebalance Now and was previously at Wikimedia Germany.
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