Toggle Menu

Generative AI Is a Climate Disaster

On this episode of Tech Won't Save Us, Sasha Luccioni on the climate impacts of AI.

Paris Marx

July 18, 2024

Artificial intelligence.(JLStock / Shutterstock)

The Nation Podcasts

Here's where to find podcasts from The Nation. Political talk without the boring parts, featuring the writers, activists and artists who shape the news, from a progressive perspective.

The Plutocratic Threat to Democracy | The Time of Monsters
byThe Nation Magazine

On this episode of The Time of Monsters, Jeet Heer is joined by David Sirota to discuss how the Powell Memo created a plan for corporate domination.

Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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.

The Nation Podcasts

Here's where to find podcasts from The Nation. Political talk without the boring parts, featuring the writers, activists and artists who shape the news, from a progressive perspective.

Google and Meta Are A Threat to Journalism w/ Matt Pearce | Tech Won't Save Us
byThe Nation Magazine

On this episode of Tech Won't Save Us, Paris Marx is joined by Matt Pearce to discuss how Google sidestepped two California bills aimed at funding journalism and how major tech companies are transforming the web to make hyperlinks less relevant.

Matt Pearce is the President of Media Guild of the West and a former reporter at the Los Angeles Times.

Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Subscribe to The Nation to Support all of our podcasts

Paris MarxParis Marx is a tech critic and host of the Tech Won’t Save Us podcast. He writes the Disconnect newsletter and is the author of Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation.


Latest from the nation