While listening to Kate Crawford’s keynote at IASEAI25 on AI’s environmental impact, I’m glad to be part of the NEPC working group whose report today calls on UK government to make tech companies be transparent about these impacts, as reported by the Guardian here
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1. The elements extracted (mostly from Inner Mongolia) are part of a vicious cycle where short hardware lives and poor e-waste recycling demand more extraction.
2. Component manufacturing is also detrimental to environment and health, as seen in South China.