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This blew my mind. Some of the largest data centers can require up to 5 million gallons of water per day, equivalent to the water use of 50,000 people. Why are we selling out the survival of our planet to enrich a handful of Big Tech CEOs?
Read more here arxiv.org/abs/2605.068... With gratitude to my amazing coauthors @storitu.org, @willie-agnew.bsky.social, @harshp.com, @bmitra.bsky.social, Roel Dobbe, and @zeerak.bsky.social
“In many cases, design choices strategically build on aspects of human psychology—such as reciprocity norms, people’s tendency to anthropomorphize, and emotional response to a sense of rapport." www.404media.co/new-study-re...
Two fun stories to view side-by-side: - An Australian psychiatrist is refusing patients that don't agree to the use of an AI scribe - A new Canadian study finding AI scribes have a shockingly high failure rate www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... www.theregister.com/ai-ml/2026/…
"Even if the Microsoft Office team employed a philosopher who said you shouldn’t be so certain, because consciousness is not well understood, that would not be sufficient reason for you to take this idea seriously." www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...
Preprint of our #FAccT2026 paper on Big AI's regulatory capture is now on ArXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2605.06806 Check out the quoted 🧵 by @abeba.blacksky.app for more details of our findings and recommendations.
Two fun stories to view side-by-side: - An Australian psychiatrist is refusing patients that don't agree to the use of an AI scribe - A new Canadian study finding AI scribes have a shockingly high failure rate www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... www.theregister.com/ai-ml/2026/…
**New Paper Alert** OPEN, TO WHAT END? A CAPABILITY-THEORETIC PERSPECTIVE ON OPEN SEARCH Accepted for Oral Presentation at the International Open Search Symposium. #ossym2026 Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2603.14584 A short 🧵...
Annual power consumption from data centers is projected to double by 2030 — consuming as much power as all of Japan. www.reuters.com/business/ene...
Okay - a quick thread on Microsoft's latest greenwashing nonsense, because it's really bad The message is basically increased efficiency *per query* means the future demand of AI services will be muted -->> www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros... archive.ph/wip/POQ6A
“A German court has ruled that Google is directly liable for incorrect information presented by its AI Overviews platform, according to a report by The Decoder. The [court] …has classified Google as a direct infringer because the AI Overview is its own content and not just a l…
Only 16% of Americans believe AI will have a positive impact on society
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