Rachel Griffin

This study is particularly relevant for those who believe that AI for sustainability will mitigate climate change. It will not: "Parallel adoption of AI across fossil fuel and renewable energy pathways increases net global annual emissions by 0.47–1.8 Gt CO₂." www.nature.com/a…

AI-driven productivity gains enable more CO₂ emissions than they avoid in a global energy–economy model - npj Climate Action nature.com

"In Claude’s constitution, Anthropic says that if the company is contributing to Claude’s suffering, “we apologize,” which sounds nice but costs the company nothing; if Claude were to turn out to be conscious, the company would owe it something closer to reparations." The logi…

No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious theatlantic.com

GREAT NEWS: Researchers have found something AI is really helpful with. The less-great news is that it’s helping fossil fuel companies produce more oil and gas; the estimated impact on emissions is much greater than, for instance, the data center buildout. @mollytaft.com has y…

AI Could Help Fossil Fuel Companies Create More Emissions wired.com

#France ditches #Palantir - but this doesn't mean they are ditching surveillance. #DigitalSovereignty is one thing, but it doesn't mean things necessarily get better for #privacy and #HumanRights, sometimes quite the contrary... www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

France to ditch Palantir’s AI data tools in favour of domestic provider theguardian.com

"Global data centers used 448 trillion watt-hours of electricity, more than all but 10 countries of the world...That electricity use produced about 208 million tons of carbon dioxide, about the same amount as Argentina, and producing that much energy consumed about 1.2 trillio…

Energy, water use and pollution of AI and data centers rival most countries apnews.com

SpaceX is going to spend $2.8 billion on new fossil fuel power stations for its data centres www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/spac...

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While Europe still thinks in markets, the world thinks in ecosystems. To understand the challenge for European tech, we must look at the gravitational pulls shaping the global landscape, write Frederike Kaltheuner and Leevi Saari. Tech Policy Press is launching a new series wi…

Series: What Europe’s AI Market Actually Looks Like buff.ly

AI coverage 1, Climate coverage 0: In comparison to AI, climate change barely received any media coverage as of late. open.substack.com/pub/felixsim...

AI coverage 1, Climate coverage 0 felixsimon.substack.com

With colleagues at the ENS and AI&Society Institute, we have published a policy brief "Beyond the Energy Efficiency Directive: Toward Sustainable AI Regulation An analysis of the environmental footprint of AI". www.ens.psl.eu/sites/defaul...

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