Andy Masley argued in a blog post that the data center backlash is at best an opportunity to draw more people into thinking seriously about AI but is likely neutral for AI safety and could be harmful,…
A new Heatmap poll shows 75% of Americans would oppose a data center built near their home, a 33-point swing in one year, as data centers become a symbol for anxieties about AI's societal impact. The …
Michael Dickens, an AI researcher, argues that democratizing access to artificial superintelligence (ASI) could help preserve civil liberties, but he emphasizes that pausing frontier AI development re…
Andy Masley argues that debates over AI's environmental impact are often rooted in normative disagreements, not factual ones, and that political liberalism offers a better framework than environmental…
Andy Masley released an interactive tool using EcoLogits data to show that individual AI chatbot prompts have negligible environmental impact, allowing users to compare their chatbot emissions to dail…
Data center critic Andy Masley argues that most local concerns about data centers are based on misinformation, citing only CO2 emissions, noise pollution, and specific cases like Elon Musk's facilitie…