How AI Will Really Destroy The World
Aug 05, 2024•59 min•Ep. 53
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Episode description
Forget intelligent machines waging war on humans, the real threat could be the amount of energy and water data processing centres are sucking up in the service of AI.
Gordon Noble from UTS’s Institute of Sustainable Futures has been crunching the numbers and it makes for alarming reading.
He joins our regular panel of Digital Rights Watch chair Lizzie O’Shea, Health Engine CEO Dan Stinton and Centre of the Public Square convenor Peter Lewis.
Also this week:
- Has the US Supreme Court just granted Big Tech a giant leave pass?
- Why is Google still addicted to Cookies?
- And could Mark Zuckerberg by right, for once
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