Amen Ra Mashariki

everyday people who are living their lives, who are living in these regions that we're concerned about, who are doing the work on the ground, can trust and use these tools as well.

There is anyone who gives you an exact number doesn't know the number, how long it's going to take.

But that's where we have to get to, is that level of trust and that level of use across a number of types of people.

You know, at the Bezos Earth Fund, we believe that on balance, AI is going to be a tool and a force for good and a tool and a force for saving the planet on balance.

We have to acknowledge that AI does contribute to degradation and challenges when it comes to the environment.

There are many, many solutions that a lot of these companies, a lot of NGOs, a lot of academic institutions and a lot of governments are applying in this space.

And we will continue, as the Baseball Survey Fund, to support those type of efforts such that we are deliberate in meeting that broad statement that AI, on balance, will have a positive impact on the planet.

So, I was listening to a panel the other day, and someone said something along the lines of, every time you do a query on ChatGPT, it's like throwing away a bottle of water on the ground.

And as soon as they made that statement, they said, you know, I don't know if that's true, but it sounds like it might be true.

One of the things that we need to begin to do is to have precise accuracy and understanding of exactly the impact that AI is having on our environment, and a shared understanding across the board, such that we can make statements that we all agree on, such that we can identify the solutions.

So,

First milestone, which will include a level of transparency, a lot of information and data, such that we can really get to a place of agreeing on exactly what those challenges are.

The next milestone is because as we speak, companies,

are shifting how they build technology to support AI.

For instance, cooling is no longer... Just cooling at the data center level has shifted to now there are mechanisms where you can cool at the chip level, such that the burden on water is not so great, right?

So these are the types of milestones that would have to be in place.

So let me say this.

We believe that we're in a space where the consequential decade meets the decisive decade.

And so if you've heard that term before, the consequential decade, it's what AI practitioners use to talk about

this is the time in which we have to think about ethics, policy, regulation, technology, innovation, invention, because these are the decisions that are going to decide, these are the things that are going to decide what impact AI has on the global community.