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At an AI summit in Paris, France, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke about the the importance of developing more clean power to support the technology. He also stressed that the benefits of AI should serve everyone, not just “ultrarich oligarchs.”
While speaking at a roundtable on Sunday, Trudeau said that the increased power generation needed for AI shouldn’t come at the expense of climate change, according to Global News. Instead, he positioned nuclear energy as a clean solution.
“With our G7 partners, we will be working to make sure the innovators have access to clean, reliable energy to power AI without hindering the fight against climate change. To do so, we must build the infrastructure necessary to achieve this at the speed that matches AI development, and nuclear technologies will be a crucial part of the solution,” Trudeau said.
Further, Trudeau said reducing the energy demand of AI will be equally important.
On Monday, Trudeau discussed the importance of making AI work for everyone during a speech at the AI summit. According to the Canadian Press, Trudeau spoke about the need for regulation.
“We must put AI to the service of everyone, in both high and low income countries, not just for an increasingly small group of ultrarich oligarchs whose only concern is the value of their stock portfolio,” Trudeau said.
Finally, Trudeau positioned Canada as a place for AI investment during his speech, noting the country has critical minerals, specialized semiconductor expertise and “one of the world’s cleanest electricity grids,” all of which will be needed for AI.
However, the actual benefits of generative AI technology remain questionable. Tech companies have spent the last couple years shoving generative AI into everything — new devices like laptops and smartphones now have AI chips and AI assistants, software makers keep coming up with new AI-powered features, like ways to generate images from text prompts. All the while, reports keep coming out of AI getting it wrong and causing issues.
For example, Microsoft has gotten in trouble multiple times over generative AI, from an AI-generated travel story suggesting people visit the Ottawa Food Bank “on an empty stomach” to its Bing image generator cranking out images of family-friendly characters like Kirby and Mickey Mouse carrying out 9/11. Meanwhile, Google’s ‘AI Overviews’ feature in search told people to put glue on pizza.
Worse, OpenAI relied on Kenyan workers making less than $2 an hour to train ChatGPT to be less toxic, which involved the workers reading mentally scarring text describing sexual abuse, hate speech and violence. And more recently, a study from Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University found that using AI can reduce critical thinking skills.
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Source: Global News, Canadian Press
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