Andy Masley
Effective Altruism DC
1 episode on Chain of Thought
At the time of the conversation, Andy Masley was Director of Effective Altruism DC. On Chain of Thought he fact-checked widely repeated claims about AI’s environmental cost, including a data-center water-usage figure in a bestselling book that he found was off by a factor of 4,500.
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from something that I'm really honestly pretty worried is distracting them and, like, leading them down what I think is a bad path. One other flag here as we go forward in this conversation is that, for any listeners, I'm definitely not asking for zero scrutiny of AI or its environmental impact along every single axis.
Debunking AI's Environmental Panic | Andy Masley