Second Nature

We Need to Talk About AI


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đź”— TAKE ACTION: Stop State AI Regulation Ban in the "One Big Beautiful Bill" Act

When you ask ChatGPT to write a cover letter, make your grocery list, or edit an image, what's actually happening in the real world? As AI gets bigger by the day, it's requiring more and more energy, water, and land in communities around the world. 

Tech companies are investing billions of dollars in data centers and technologies to power AI, but are they also investing in sustainable and equitable resources to keep it going?

Today, we’re going to take a step back from the chatbots to understand the true impact of AI, how we’re tracking and regulating that impact, and we’ll find out what it will take to build a sustainable future for AI with Shalolei Ren — associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California Riverside whose work focuses on AI for good. 


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Episode Credits

  • Listener contributions: Kylie Kovatch, Artie Sadahiro, Nicole Collins, Parisa Golchoubian, Brian Stancheski
  • Episode expert: Shaolei Ren
  • Editing and engineer: Evan Goodchild‍
  • Hosting and production: Katelan Cunningham
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