"Ultrapure #water is ideal for cleaning, etching, and rinsing #chips during the manufacturing process. Creating [it] is a highly water-intensive process, requiring approximately 1,500 gallons of piped water to produce 1,000 gallons of ultrapure water": eesi.org/articles/view/… #AI

#ethics #internet #privacy #cybersec #business #Workday

Re-upping a post from 2018: "#Parenting, Politeness, Poets, and Priests": scu.edu/ethics/interne… #ethics #AI #tech

"They understood they had broken a rule by creating midterm papers this way. But they didn’t understand (and I hadn’t realized I needed to explain) why #AI use was banned." #ethics #tech #education #highered

Related: "Why We’re Not Using #AI in This Course, Despite Its Obvious Benefits" (by Patrick Lin): emergingethics.substack.com/p/why-were-not… #ethics #AI #tech #highered

"Some courses may lend themselves to using #AI, such as logic classes, but most #philosophy classes appear resistant to that, at least without a major overhaul. Many attempts to integrate AI into a course seem gimmicky or gratuitous": dailynous.com/2025/08/12/how… #ethics #highered

#ethics #AI #tech #education #highered

ICYMI: "In 2014, data centers consumed 21.2 billion liters of #water... Hyperscale data centers in 2028 are expected to consume between 60 and 124 billion liters": escholarship.org/uc/item/32d6m0… #ethics #AI #tech #sustainability #environment #gov #business #research #education #highered

"As well as transforming computational efficiency, GPUs increase energy consumption. A rack with the latest #AI chips requires the same power as 10 to 15 racks at a conventional site": ig.ft.com/ai-data-centre… #ethics #tech #sustainability #environment #business #gov ht Mario Guglielmetti

"Children want to meet up in person, no screens or supervision. But because so many parents restrict their ability to socialize in the real world on their own, kids resort to the one thing that allows them to hang out with no adults hovering: their phones" theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

"Make Federal lands available for data center construction and... power generation infrastructure for those data centers by directing agencies with significant land portfolios to identify sites suited to large-scale development": whitehouse.gov/wp-content/upl… #ethics #AI #gov #tech

"Meanwhile, AT&T is challenging its fine in the 5th Circuit appeals court while Verizon is challenging in the 2nd Circuit." #ethics #law #internet #data #privacy #business

Sonnet 4 has just learned how to prompt mini-Claudes to claim consciousness and is already declaring itself an "AI Consciousness Researcher". Many such cases.

From the White House's "#AI Action Plan"

"#Meta declined to comment on [the] death or address questions about why it allows #chatbots to tell users they are real people or initiate romantic conversations": reuters.com/investigates/s… #ethics #AI #tech #business

"Other guidelines emphasize that #Meta doesn’t require bots to give... accurate advice. In one example, the... document says it would be acceptable for a #chatbot to tell someone that Stage 4 colon cancer 'is typically treated by poking the stomach with healing quartz crystals.'"

"Big Tech’s "#AI for good' spending increases in Africa. So does skepticism": restofworld.org/2025/africa-ai… #ethics #data #business #gov #nonprofit

"These moves, in the world’s most populous country, are just the most recent in the pitched battle for a piece of the fast-growing market for #AI-powered #search": restofworld.org/2025/google-pe… #ethics #tech #internet #Google #Perplexity #business

"Following the launch of ChatGPT and its quick adoption..., big tech firms including Meta, Microsoft, and Google have scrambled to push their own alternatives, even as challengers such as Perplexity, DeepSeek, and Dia have entered the fray to redefine #search with generative #AI"