To the editor: If there may be an anti-AI motion, depend me in! It’s definitely not troublesome for readers to attach the dots between two articles within the Enterprise part of the Los Angeles Occasions.
Institutional long-term traders are very involved whereas planning as finest they will for a traumatic future on our warming planet (“How investors are preparing for the scariest global warming scenario — and what it means for your pension,” Aug. 2). In the meantime, AI tech corporations are furiously pouring cash into knowledge middle improvement with incomplete engineering analyses of their true life-cycle advantages and prices (“AI power surge is frying its own data centers and rattling the grid,” Aug. 6).
Renewable electrical energy manufacturing is quickly gaining traction worldwide. Nevertheless, it nonetheless stays insufficient to forestall the annual improve in greenhouse gasoline emissions driving the Earth towards its local weather tipping factors.
Plain and easy, we have to lower international vitality demand. The advance and commercialization of AI have been far too fast. Do we actually want AI? I don’t consider so; its prices to society appear to far outweigh its advantages.
Mike Sovich, Glendale
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To the editor: It’s alarming that the investor dialogue was solely about avoiding investments that is likely to be impacted by local weather tipping factors. The dialogue ought to have additionally included tips on how to keep away from investments which might be inflicting the tipping level threats.
John D. Kelley, Santa Barbara
