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Critics slam tech billionaires' claim that AI will fix climate change

Original: It’s galling that tech billionaires tell us that letting them destroy the climate to develop AI will allow AI to tell us

Commenters are pushing back on arguments from tech billionaires that the climate damage caused by building and powering AI data centres will be offset because AI will eventually help solve climate change. The argument, circulated widely online, criticises both the tech industry for making the claim and news outlets for repeating it without scrutiny, calling it self-serving and unproven.

Why now: Frustration is growing over the environmental cost of AI data centres and the industry's justifications for it.

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• It’s galling that tech billionaires tell us that letting them destroy the climate to develop AI will allow AI to tell us (somehow? maybe? probably?) how to fix climate change. And even more frustrating that news outlets report this blather without so much as a wrinkled eyebrow.… · drahardja@sfba.social · 282

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