Andy Masley

Here's the paper www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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

I missed that Al Gore takes my exact position that data centers aren’t that bad but x-risk is real techcrunch.com/2026/09/16/a...

Al Gore says the real AI risk isn't data centers | TechCrunch techcrunch.com

I’m incredibly honored and grateful to be named one of @time.com's 100 people in AI this year! When I started writing I felt a little crazy as just another guy with an AI blog trying to budge a global debate. It's been amazing to actually move how people think. time.com/collec…

The 100 Most Influential People in AI 2026 time.com

A lot of people will say they don't believe my numbers on individual AI prompts not being bad. You can use this collection of estimates from outside experts and just see for yourself how many times you'd have to send each prompt to raise your carbon footprint by 1%. huggingfac…

EcoLogits Calculator - a Hugging Face Space by genai-impact huggingface.co

www.andymasley.com/visuals/ai-p...

What does your chatbot use actually cost? andymasley.com

This is the first part of a 2 part post on why I believe that current AI models meet my criteria for really "thinking" and "understanding," and that prohibitions on using these words because they "anthropomorphize" AI seem philosophically confused to me. blog.andymasley.com/p/…

Why I believe current AI models can really think and understand - Part 1 of 2 blog.andymasley.com

I think I figured out exactly how the “AI used a bottle of water per prompt” miscalculation happened open.substack.com/pub/andymasl...

I think I figured out exactly how the “AI used a bottle of water per prompt” miscalculation happened blog.andymasley.com

More and more previous stats are starting to be thrown around about how China's influencing the data center debate. Most of these don't hold up once you know what they were measuring. If you skim my post here you'll be able to recognize when they're coming up blog.andymasley.c…

I'm very skeptical that China has played a meaningful role in the US data center backlash blog.andymasley.com

Wrote a rant about how other large industries reveal how impoverished the data center debate is based on the image of the steel mill I posted yesterday blog.andymasley.com/p/other-larg...

Other large industries show how impoverished the data center debate is blog.andymasley.com

This article was basically exactly what I'd like all reporting on data centers to look like. A solid grappling with costs and benefits + interviewing locals who represent the full spectrum of opinion www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/arti...

Client Challenge sfchronicle.com

Feel like a lot of AI conversations are at about the level of someone saying "I like Wikipedia and YouTube" and then someone else saying "Oh so you're pro internet, you're an internet booster? You don't see any potential problems with the internet?"

The AI labs really need to improve their image. They could form some sort of political pac, maybe call it the "AIPAC." I'm sure it'd be really popular

If I avoid the word "alignment" and just ask "If we keep scaling AI models up, will we reliably avoid situations where they do something catastrophic pursuing a normal goal?" the answer seems like no right now

Wow this farmer has a message for AI companies who want to buy his land

My big main objection to how people talk about chatbots is they often imply the majority of people are so tasteless and stupid that they need to be protected from their own use of a talking computer

AI safety people aren't being influenced by Terminator 2. Very few AI safety people have seen Terminator 2. I know this because it's a perfect movie and I've had a side quest over the past few years to get influential safety people to watch Terminator 2 with me.

Had two separate people I knew from college and hadn't talked to in a while mention that AI had helped them find a life changing medical diagnosis breakthrough, it was a little wild and I wasn't fishing for that at all.

Fuck what if LLMs have qualia and we don't. What then?

"I believe we shouldn't block all consideration of AI consciousness because 'machines can't ever be conscious.' There's a lot of uncertainty in philosophy of mind." "That's not evidence that AI is conscious!" "Yes... correct it's not." Somehow this is every third interaction I'm having recently

It's been almost a year since I posted The AI Water Issue is Fake. In that time, I'm not aware of an instance where the normal operation of a data center harmed people's water access.