Jordan Harrod 
This video was created in partnership with Bill Gates, inspired by his new book “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster.” Find out more here: http://gatesnot.es/3rZkWZj
Will AI systems help us reduce our emissions, avoiding a climate disaster? Or will the emissions associated with AI development outshadow its possible benefits?
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About The Author
This video was created in partnership with Bill Gates, inspired by his new book “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster.” Find out more here: http://gatesnot.es/3rZkWZj
Had some technical difficulties on that first version – sorry about that!
I'm surprised you haven't made "An AI Wrote This Video"
Hi Jordan! Longtime fan, first time caller! Something this made me think about is Abigail Thorn's Climate Grief video, where she provides an example at the beginning that showcases how issues of climate change, border control, and labor rights intersect. She gives the example of how climate change is killing fish in the ocean so fisheries push further out into the ocean with poorer labor conditions and less sustainable fishing practices, so you end up in this vicious cycle of climate change contributing to worse human rights and worse human rights contributing to worse climate change. So when I think about AI helping/harming climate change efforts, I also think it's worth recognizing that many AI systems are used to solidify the oppression of poor people, immigrants, workers, etc (e.g. thinking about Amazon's factory floor productivity algorithm which fires workers who don't meet the algorithm's productivity quota), and that oppression by those algorithms supports some of the unsustainable business practices we see by large companies. Of course, this is much harder to quantify! TL;DR – when talking about AI and climate change, I also think we should be having conversations about how AI affects other political issues, such as labor rights.
tbh I checked the timestamp when you said "because you have been on the internet for more than 5 minutes" and I was slightly disappointed that it was only 4 minutes in the video.
apart from that: really interesting video, audio is somewhat soft compared to other video's on youtube.
Interesting…didn't know some of these!
Also, YouTube is beta testing new "Parent supervised" account options for 9+, 13+, and late teens who fit between "YouTube Kids" and "Regular YouTube". They're using user input, human review and machine learning to determine which qualifies for which category. Can you make a video about how that might work?
Thank you, very interesting as usual!
This topic got a little lost on me in places but I barely scraped science in school and that was nearly 10 years ago but still super interesting and never even thought about the carbon footprint of AI.
Are you aware of any studies or use cases for using the waste heat from server farms as a heating resource for places like smelters or to heat homes in the winter?
I love the sound here. Wonderful asmr
Hopefully climate deniers don't downvote this.
Green AI sounds super interesting!
Very interesting, and I’m glad you noted that electricity consumption doesn’t necessarily equal carbon emissions.
For example, here in BC, about 96% of our electricity comes from hydro power – meaning that any servers set up here are virtually zero-carbon.
ai will not save the earth. Only your life choices. Start demolishing Capitalism . Apply equality and justice for all, and your earth problems will magically get fixed.
Utopia i hear you say.
Oh well,i tried.
this counts as unintentional asmr
I truly hate bill gates, and all billionaires. Socialism is the only way out of the climate crisis
I wonder, from the social engineering front, if tech companies could push to unseat Bitcoin for a cryptocurrency that actually did useful math and modeling. I know there are some out there, but they don't seem to get the same traction. It seems cryptocurrencies are something people want, and they are going to use a lot of electricity. It would be nice if we could get more climate science, genome modeling or AI out of them.
this is so cool! i hope your channel blows up 💖
nuclear. there is no choice.
we need manageable energy production right now. other clean energy is nice but it isn't growing fast enough.
Bill Gates is bad, actually
what is this the white thing under your chin?
The audio on this video is ridiculously quiet. I can't hear anything without blasting my speakers. Could you please level your audio for the next video?
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While carbon emissions don't seem that important when it comes to training AI models, especially if the potential long-term gains are worth it (unless the emissions really are that massive) it's really awesome and responsible that the people working on these things are also thinking about the emissions, regardless.
It sets a good example in the face of more "pointless" computing activities, such as Bitcoin mining, which probably makes the carbon emissions of AI development seem trivial in comparison. How many resources that is taking up, I wonder? Particularly also when we have a limit on computing power for AI development.
In addition, it's nice that people want to use AI to help mitigate the spread of misinformation, but can't it go both ways, a bit like deepfakes? Another potential cat and mouse situation, maybe?
Still, interesting stuff. Much about AI is way over my head, but it seems to be the next major leap forward in human progression, so I feel it's worth keeping an eye on. Your videos explain a lot of it in a really clear and concise way, so thank you. 🙂
how to avoid a climate disaster: take $10 trillion owned by billionaire ghoul parasites like bill gates by force and spend the money on transitioning