New analysis shows that nearly half of China’s major cities are sinking. “Tens of millions of people in the country’s coastal lands might find their homes below sea level by 2120 owing to sinking and sea-level rise.”

nature.com/articles/d4158…

'Algorithms have become market gatekeepers and value allocators, and are now becoming producers and arbiters of knowledge.' In our article Tim O'Reilly Ilan Strauss Rufus and I argue for a closer look at the economic power of AI in The Conversation ⬇️ theconversation.com/to-understand-…

World Press Photo of the Year.

I spent a bit of time using Udio, and it turns out a bunch of its output closely resembles copyrighted music.

- Melodies & chords sometimes closely resemble famous songs
- Some output closely resembles specific artists’ sound/style
- I could generate copyrighted lyrics for most

”Ganska många är rätt desperata” ⁦- Korallexperten ⁦⁦Fredrik Moberg⁩ om den nya globala vågen av korallblekning och hur forskare försöker rädda reven. sverigesradio.se/play/artikel/8…

New one from me in Science Magazine, on why we mustn't see the risks of AI in apocalyptic terms

A few ethics-related issues, among them:
- Fact vs Fiction: This is rewriting history. Minimally, needs mechanisms in place (C2PA and/or watermarking) so future handling of GenAI images can be marked as such
- Consent: Likeness edited w/o consent
- Disclosure: People need to know

Yesterday, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe adopted a highly critical opinion of the #AI Convention, the world's first international treaty on Artificial Intelligence. The opinion slams the reduced scope and proposes several amendments.
pace.coe.int/en/news/9440/p…

i asked SARAH, the World Health Organization's new AI chatbot, for medical help near me, and it provided an entirely fabricated list of clinics/hospitals in SF. fake addresses, fake phone numbers.
check out Jessica Nix's take on SARAH here:
bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg

Without our continued burning of fossil fuels, extreme heat in Sahel that killed hundreds ay the end of Ramadan would not have happened. New World Weather Attribution study worldweatherattribution.org/extreme-sahel-…

New research published in Nature today finds that we are on track for climate damages worth $38 trillion per year by 2050. This is a staggering figure. The damages are projected to be worth 6x more than the mitigation costs of limiting global warming to 2C.

Fantastiskt fint reportage om Amazonas, klimatets tippningspunkter, och hoten mot biologisk mångfald i världens regnskogar. Hatten av för Svenska Dagbladet och Mikael Törnwall

svd.se/a/zEvAxr/betyd…

For every degree C that Earth’s atmospheric temperature rises, the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere can increase by about 7%.

A warmer world is a one with heavier precipitation events, even in places where average rainfall may remain unchanged. carbonbrief.org/explainer-what…

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Ilya Sutskever, Chief Scientist of OpenAI, said:

'I think it's pretty likely the entire surface of the earth will be covered with solar panels and data centers...'

I’ve been thinking about this a lot, that the economic and evolutionary logic of AI and data center construction

We are recruiting a postdoc for our project on itinerant rule in medieval Europe. web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/1035/…

Bezos Earth Fund $100m prizes for AI for Climate and Nature — just announced ⁦TED Talks⁩

Very insightful article by Emily Boyd and colleagues at LUCSUS_LU about 'quiet' and 'loud' social resistance to climate adaptation projects around the world.

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Svenska företag förlorar på urvattnad grön giv gp.se/af773c55-66a5-…

Who you vote for is private, but everything about you leading up to that moment is tracked and used to target you with campaign ads. eff.org/deeplinks/2024…