Sam Altman, the high priest of Silicon Valley, told us this week that we shouldn’t complain about AI’s masive energy use because “humans consume a lot of energy too.”

In other words: stop whining, carbon-based peasants-your children are the real environmental problem. Do you know how much energy it takes to raise and educate one of those inefficient little mammals.

And these are the people deciding the fate of potentially the most dangerous technology ever built.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/21/sam-altman-would-like-remind-you-that-humans-use-a-lot-of-energy-too/

Sam Altman would like to remind you that humans use a lot of energy, too | TechCrunch

"It also takes a lot of energy to train a human."

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@Climatehistories New Scientist has a thing where readers write in with examples of nominative determinism where a person’s name matches their jobs description. Altman is trying to make an alt man. Beautiful!
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