The UK gov't just released the first International AI Safety Report, offering key insights on general-purpose AI to guide informed policymaking. HAI leading scholars @YejinChoinka
, @percyliang
, @MarietjeSchaake
, and @RishiBommasani contributed to the report, which will shape
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UK Government Releases First International AI Safety Report
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Jevons’ Paradox in AI Environmental Debate and Rebound Effects
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🌎Full paper here: "From Efficiency Gains to Rebound Effects: The Problem of Jevons’ Paradox in AI’s Polarized Environmental Debate" arxiv.org/pdf/2501.16548
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AI Progress Cannot Reduce Climate Impact Without Curbing Consumption
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Conclusion: AI advances can't reduce climate impacts if they fuel exponential consumption
📌 Energy efficiency alone isn't enough
📌 Integrate total lifecycle assessments + socioeconomic analysis for climate interventions
📌 Address AI-driven economic & behavioral shifts [Translated from EN to English]→ View original post on X — @katecrawford, 2025-01-29 18:21 UTC
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AI Environmental Impact Beyond Hardware Efficiency and Emissions
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AI’s impact is shaped by market incentives, regulatory gaps, and social behaviors, not just hardware efficiency. Focusing only on direct emissions ignores system-wide feedback loops that drive AI’s expanding environmental footprint 📈
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AI Efficiency Paradox: Lower Costs Drive Higher Environmental Costs
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AI follows a similar pattern: ✅ More efficient models → cheaper compute ✅ Cheaper compute → more AI ✅ More AI → more demand for compute, data centers, energy & emissions. Without including second-order effects, the AI industry risks a false sense of sustainability
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AI Climate Impact Beyond Energy: The Jevons Paradox Effect
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AI’s climate impact isn’t just data center energy, emissions & water. The debate overlooks rebound effects—where efficiency gains spur more consumption. 19thC economist William Jevons observed the paradox that more efficient coal use led to greater total coal consumption 🪨
→ View original post on X — @katecrawford, 2025-01-29 18:21 UTC
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VC Investments Behind Privacy Violations and Human Rights Abuses
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"By connecting the dots between financial actors, privacy-violating technologies, & human rights impacts, we’re making the VC investments behind this abuse traceable & public" @ealshafei
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DeepSeek accused of siphoning OpenAI data amid US-China tech tensions
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DeepSeek accusé de siphonner les données d'OpenAI ! La tension monte dans la guerre froide technologique entre la Chine et les États-Unis. Selon @Bloomberg
, #Microsoft enquête sur une extraction massive de données en 2024 via des comptes développeurs d’OpenAI, liés à -
AI Copyright Controversy: OpenAI Faces Public Backlash Risk
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OpenAI and other frontier model companies are going to get zero sympathy for this considering they all built their models on copyrighted content without permission from or compensation to creators. If they push on this, it could blow back bad from a public sentiment perspective.
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China Export Controls and Two Possible AI Futures
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My thoughts on China, export controls and two possible futures