Journalist Karen Hao urged AI developers to move away from massive data center scale-up at an MIT conference. She argued the current approach is unnecessary and pointed to AlphaFold as an example of a better path: small, task-specific models that deliver enormous benefit without massive energy and resource costs. https://news.mit.edu/2026/right-path-for-ai-karen-hao-paola-ricaurte-0320 #AIagent #AI #GenAI #GlobalAIGovernance #KarenHao