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Podcast: The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
Episode: Silicon Dreams and Carbon Nightmares: The Wide Boundary Impacts of AI with Daniel Schmachtenberger
Description: (Conversation recorded on June 27th, 2024)  Show Summary: Artificial intelligence has been advancing at a break-neck pace. Accompanying this is an almost frenzied optimism that AI will fix our most pressing global problems, particularly when it comes to the hype surrounding climate solutions. In this episode, Daniel Schmachtenberger joins Nate to take a wide-boundary look at the true environmental risks embedded within the current promises of artificial intelligence. He demonstrates that the current trajectory of AI's impact is headed towards ecological destruction, rather than restoration… an important narrative currently missing from the discourse surrounding AI at...