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Former Google CEO says climate goals are not meetable, so we might as well drop climate conservation — unshackle AI companies so AI can solve global warming (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 2 months ago (3 children)

All that extra processing power for the AI to just say: "you should have listened to the scientists years ago".

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

100% this. We fucking know what the solution is. AI will reach the same conclusion as we have; decarbonise everything. It’s the implementation that’s hard, not the idea.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 months ago

Unless AI wants to keep itself alive...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Oh to hear the AI give us the “well I guess you should have thought of THAT before you did something WRONG” line that some humans use to dehumanize others.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I imagine the likely conclusion of it would come up with would be something like "decrease the size of the human population".