Mastodawn

Let me translate the United Nations article regarding AI for you which "calls for urgent action to ensure that the technology develops within planetary limits".

Urgent = act now.

Planetary limits = you cannot exceed them.

https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/06/1167658

AI’s environmental costs threaten water, land and climate

Artificial Intelligence is not only responsible for worrying amounts of earth-warming greenhouse gases: the technology's environmental footprint is also expanding at a pace that could strain the planet’s natural resources.

UN News

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emailgeek 2d ago

@bkastl more details in the study https://unu.edu/inweh/news/environmental-cost-of-AIs-Enrgy-use-carbon-water-and-land-footprints
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Rising Emissions, Depleting Water and Vanishing Land—UN Scientists: AI Is Threatening Natural Resources for Billions

By 2030, AI's water use will match the needs of 1.3 billion people while its power use triples that of 650 million, UN University investigation warns

United Nations University

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Passwordsarehard4 1d ago

@bkastl the problem with that is there is no “planetary limit”. We already didn’t have fresh water for everyone, we never have had enough nutritional food for everyone, many of us are homeless and searching each day for survival. The resources we waste on getting AI to work isn’t extra, it’s literally killing people all over the planet. There is no ethical use of AI.