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The hidden cost of the AI boom: social and environmental exploitation

  • Written by: Ascelin Gordon, Senior research fellow, RMIT University
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Mainstream conversations about artificial intelligence (AI) have been dominated by a few key concerns, such as whether superintelligent AI will wipe us out, or whether AI will steal our jobs. But we’ve paid less attention the various other environmental and social impacts of our “consumption” of AI, which are arguably...

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