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the technology of advanced AI at Stu who say that we are going to likely find with AI's help ways to significantly reduce emissions in lots of use cases.
I've already seen that beginning to happen.
Now, whether that happens on a scale that cancels out all the extra emissions from the data centers, I don't know.
But they have a political problem in locating these data centers.
And, of course, we have just had in the last few days really historic judgments in courts in two states, in California and New Mexico, that really brutally condemned the practices of Facebook and others.
And what the court found, what the juries found, was intentional efforts to addict individuals.
young preteens and teens with content they knew would cause them harm.
Now, I bring that up in the context of AI, Tim, because that's the first generation of AI.
These algorithms that control the attention flows on the Internet and the consequent distribution of content, that's the first generation of AI, and it has been demonstrated
devastating to so many people, particularly young people, but I think a lot of other people as well.
I mean, you know, we have incels now.
Have you ever heard of incels in the past?
This body image thing?
I'm sorry that the circumstances that have been created in part by these algorithms where some of these young guys, I'm told, have to swipe left a thousand times to get one coffee with a girl that they want to meet.
I mean, you know, this has all been analyzed in some depth, but the point I'm making is a bigger one.
The first generation of A.I.,
has created new problems that are really quite serious.
And we're trying to work through them now.
A lot of countries are banning social media for young people.
I support that.