AI Can Help Fight Climate Change, But It Also Adds to It
WSJ Tech News Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 2 October 2023
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:33.7 | Welcome to Tech News Briefing, it's Monday, October 2nd, I'm Zoe Thomas, for the Wall |
| 0:39.0 | Street Journal. |
| 0:40.8 | Artificial intelligence has huge potential to help us figure out new and better ways to |
| 0:46.8 | cut carbon emissions and water use. |
| 0:49.6 | But doing that complicated computation leads AI to have a big climate impact of its own. |
| 0:56.6 | On this episode, we're going to talk about ways to make the use of AI, greener. |
| 1:07.6 | But first, the Supreme Court has agreed to take up a case on whether states can regulate |
| 1:13.1 | how social media platforms moderate content. |
| 1:17.2 | Both Texas and Florida past laws aimed at combating what they say are moderation practices |
| 1:23.4 | that disproportionately muffled conservative voices. |
| 1:27.3 | Groups representing social media companies have challenged those laws, arguing the platforms |
| 1:32.1 | have a first amendment right to decide how they curate and share content. |
| 1:37.3 | Apple's latest challenge in China is a crackdown that could shrink its app store. |
| 1:43.0 | According to people familiar with the discussions over recent months, Apple has been told by Chinese |
| 1:47.8 | officials that it must strictly enforce new rules banning unregistered foreign apps |
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