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Altman: AI’s Energy Use Is Tiny Next to Humanity’s Energy Appetite

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Source: Gizmodo
Altman: AI’s Energy Use Is Tiny Next to Humanity’s Energy Appetite
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At the India AI Impact Summit, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman dismissed sensational claims about AI’s vast energy use, arguing that data centers do consume energy but that the sector should shift to nuclear and renewables. He contends that training and sustaining human civilization itself required far more energy, food, and evolutionary time, prompting a backlash online and highlighting the industry’s transparency gaps in reporting energy and water usage.

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  1. Sam Altman: Know What Else Used a Lot of Energy? Human Civilization  Gizmodo
  2. Sam Altman would like to remind you that humans use a lot of energy, too  TechCrunch
  3. AI energy efficiency comparisons ‘unfair’ bleats Sam Altman, citing amount of energy needed to evolve, then train a human — one ‘takes like 20 years of life and all of the food you eat during that time before you get smart’ he argues  Tom's Hardware
  4. OpenAI CEO reduces childhood to a power bill  Boing Boing
  5. ‘Tech should not dominate humans’: Zoho’s Sridhar Vembu responds to Sam Altman  Moneycontrol

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