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2025 was a year when I set out to spread the word as far as I could about the impacts of tech in general, and of AI in particular. And I learned a lot more than I preached! Learnings One of the main highlights: speaking at ChangeNOW, one of the world's biggest climate conference, about … Continue reading 2025 Learnings; 2026 Hopes; 2025 Inspirations
Article originally published in La Machine, the AI newsletter of the French Tech Journal We know. It’s been quite the year for AI. Three years even, if you take ChatGPT’s release as the starting gun for all of this madness. Besides countless AI startups’ fundraisers and gazillions being sunk into data centres, this was the … Continue reading Why 2026 must be the year of Responsible AI
87%. That’s how much the emissions of NVIDIA (worth 5 trillion dollars) increased in 2024, as an article from TruthDig is one of the only sources in the world to point out. This means it became the world’s most valuable company by answering soaring demand for AI… whilst doubling its carbon footprint. Not to mention … Continue reading Understanding AI’s true – and ever-increasing – impacts
Last year, at Viva Technology (aka VivaTech), I hosted a round table session for a select few attendees keen to find out more about AI. This year, not only were sustainable AI luminaries Sasha Luccioni (Climate & AI Lead, Hugging Face) and Kate Kallot (Founder & CEO, Amini) invited to speak on 3 different sessions … Continue reading Viva la Sustainable AI, enfin?
"We can't quantify AI's impact, we don't have enough precise data." Oh really? It's largely in reaction to assertions like this that I first set about compiling the above stats, late 2024. Because, whilst a lot of figures floating around are questionable - most famously the assertion that 1 request to ChatGPT uses as much … Continue reading AI’s Impacts, how to limit them, and why (updated)
Announced as “the Olympics of AI”, France’s AI Action Summit, which just ended here in Paris, was supposed to find new meaning for artificial intelligence, notably defining a way for European AI to compete with US and Chinese domination of this still much-hyped sector. In short, it claimed to answer tech bros’ favourite question: how … Continue reading Is AI making the world a worse place?
Full disclosure: this article was originally published on my current employer's blog Has the the breakneck speed of change and hype since late 2022's ChatGPT-fuelled generative AI explosion given us enough time to fully assess generative AI’s true impact on the planet? Let’s take a look. The impact, in figures First and foremost, it’s now … Continue reading Can AI be sustainable?
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