Jensen Huang talks about AI and climate change like a supervillain
中文摘要
黄仁勋称AI虽能对抗气候变化，但需先承受巨大的能源“痛苦”，这种加速主义观点认为AI益处值得环境代价。
English Summary
Jensen Huang argues AI can fight climate change, but only after causing significant "pain and suffering" via energy consumption, reflecting an accelerationist view of technological progress.
As Jensen Huang puts it, AI can help fight climate change - but only if it inflicts "an enormous amount of pain and suffering" first. The Nvidia CEO discussed the future of energy and AI's impact on our planet in the latest episode of The Ezra Klein Show. But his comments boil down to the same accelerationist spin we've seen from a variety of tech leaders as well as President Donald Trump. They promise that AI will be such a gift to humanity that it's worth the damage caused by data centers currently running on dirty energy. Huang's extreme level of privilege is glaring Huang's extreme level of privilege is glaring in the interview. He … Read the full story at The Verge.