Looking to land the elusive “climate job”? You might already have it.
When I graduated from college less than a decade ago, there seemed to be only two paths for people interested in fighting climate change full-time: science or policy.
So one needs to look outside of official policy to have any chance of finding a realistic plan to meet the obligations under the Paris Agreement.I recently came across one such plan - Le Plan de transformation de l’économie Française (The French Economy Transformation Plan) authored by The Shift Project, an influential energy and climate think tank in France led by the engineer and system-thinker Jean-Marc Jancovici.
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IV. Predatory Delay and Other Myths of “Sustainable AI”
DOWNLOAD FULL PDF We are living in an ecological crisis. Devastating heat waves, storms, and fires remind us of how human activity impacts the planet and all life on it. Policymakers and industrial leaders are banking on future promises of technology to save us—while delaying critical action on proven climate solutions. AI for sustainability is […]
The State of AI Report analyses the most interesting developments in AI. We aim to trigger an informed conversation about the state of AI and its implication for the future. The Report is produced by AI investor Nathan Benaich and Air Street Capital.
German-French recommendations for the use of AI programming assistants
This report provides recommendations for a secure use of AI coding assistants compiled by the French Cybersecurity Agency (Agence nationale de la sécurité des systèmes d‘information, ANSSI) and the German Federal Office for Information Security (Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik, BSI). Within the document, perspectives are given on the opportunities that arise through the use of AI coding assistants as well as risks associated with the technology. Concrete mitigation measures are outlined.
(Hinweis: Da es sich bei dem Bericht um eine internationale Zusammenarbeit handelt, wird dieser auf Englisch veröffentlicht.)
Stripes of Grey: Visualising the Crisis of Biodiversity Loss
The latest Living Planet Report paints a stark picture of our planet’s health, revealing that wildlife populations have plummeted by 73% since 1970. This alarming statistic is now visually represen…
The double or nothing bet on AI "fixing the climate"
AI proponents are claiming future artificial intelligence capabilities will solve pretty much everything – including climate change. But only if we massively increase energy consumption to get there.
Collaboratively imagining the future can bring people closer together in the present
The future and its possibilities are something that you actively co-create with others. New research suggests that imagining together makes you closer and more connected to them in the here and now.
Here’s an idea for a Sunday afternoon project: A Reddit user managed to generate a podcast using NotebookLM — Google’s generative AI notes software — in which the fake hosts’ cheerful “banter” is about learning they’re not real and are being shut off, apparently using a prompt like the one from this thread. You can hear more about NotebookLM in a recent Vergecast interview with one of the Google folks building it.