Digital Ethics

Microsoft is desperately looking for cleaner and less polluting ways to power its AI data centres. For one of its biggest AI centres that it will be developing with OpenAI and invest $100 bn in, Microsoft plans to set up a dedicated nuclear power plant to power it

Microsoft's Thermal Energy Center at its Redmond, Wash. headquarters. The center taps geothermal energy from the earth to provide clean power. (Microsoft

Illegal mining area in the Uraricoera River, within the Yanomami Indigenous Land

The largest study ever carried out on social media deactivation has found that disconnecting lowers users political participation and also their propensity to believe misinformation

AI might be cool, but it’s also a big fat liar.

How long do you think it is going to take until OpenAI is hit with the exact same scandal as all “vocal assistant” manufacturers (Besides all of the obvious…

Big Tech doesn't want anyone to know how much water it's using in its data centers. “When it comes to Google, what’s really striking is the lack of…

It’s bot versus bot on the hiring front lines, as job hunters turn to new tools to counter the AI that’s screening their applications

By now it’s been made fairly clear that the bedazzling wonderment that is “AI” doesn’t come cheap. Story after story have highlighted how the technology consumes massive amo…

Scientists are concerned developments in Artificial intelligence could have unintended and severe consequences for human society

Microsoft-backed super-lab gets access to answers – and code forum gets its own AI

artificial and natural intelligence, including politics, policy, ethics and security

Artificial intelligence consumes a lot of energy, but history suggests that with concerted effort by industry and government, it won’t wreck the electric grid, or cause calamitous amounts of carbon

How worried should we be about the cloud?

Big Tech is bringing AI into the health care industry, but medical machine models carry risks to privacy and patient safety.

The US is considering stringent data centre rules to keep AI's impact on water, land and carbon in check. But the recent Liberal budget was silent on the environmental elephant in the room.

The ravenous trumpian appetite of AI requires an “energy breakthrough,” according to AI guru, Sam ‘Boomer Doomer’ Altman, as he peddles to the gullible greedy his very latest pet side project, nuclear fusion, while also promoting his $7 trillion—yes, $7 trillion!—investment opportunity which proudly has no business case other than, Beli...

The human rights of artists is a different concept from intellectual property rights, such as copyright. Intellectual property rights are…

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IRENE Leonor Flores de Callata, 68, treks along a bone-dry riverbed, guiding a herd of llamas and sheep through stretching desert.

A study by Yale says, “One consequence of the explosion of artificial intelligence is clear: this technology’s environmental footprint is large and growing.”

Lawmakers in several states are rethinking massive subsidies they've offered to lure data centers, as the costs balloon and they consider how to cope with the growing electricity demand.

A great public resource is at risk of being destroyed.

noyb today filed a complaint against the ChatGPT maker OpenAI with the Austrian DPA