UN report: Organization should take much more active role in AI monitoring, oversight.
  • CrayonMasterEnglish
    85·
    2 months ago

    I… does the UN think they’re handling climate change well and promptly?

    • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      14·
      2 months ago

      i mean the global un is pretty good on it; it’s just that the larger world powers (especially the us every time they have a conservative who goes backward on it) tend to drag their feet on it

      • CrayonMasterEnglish
        7·
        2 months ago

        I mean I don’t think it’s the UN’s fault they can’t get shit done about climate change, but I still wouldn’t use it as a model

      • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
        31·
        2 months ago

        Also China doesn’t want to fix their shit. So they’ll always be a problem.

  • SuperFola@programming.devEnglish
    385·
    2 months ago

    « creating an AI fund to back projects in these [poorer] nations, establishing AI standards and data-sharing systems, and creating resources such as training to help nations with AI governance. »

    So basically burn money and energy on some hallucinating algorithm should be as important as investing in green energy and reducing CO2 levels. That makes sense. Like, yeah, totally onboard. What could go wrong?

    • jdeath@lemm.eeEnglish
      41·
      2 months ago

      those ai projects will be countering the climate change projects! government at its usual

  • PapaStevesy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    2 months ago

    I’d like to ignore it until it goes away too, but I don’t think that’s an effective strategy for either issue.

  • nyan@lemmy.cafeEnglish
    21·
    2 months ago

    Given the amount of electricity training and running all these LLMs requires, they might, like cryptocurrency, become drivers of climate change as they cause polluting generators to be built or unmothballed.

  • foremanguy@lemmy.mlEnglish
    14·
    2 months ago

    Bevause they are doing something for the climate?

    Ohh okay, so the AI is free to prosper 😁

  • ᕙ(⇀‸↼‶)ᕗ@lemm.eeEnglish
    14·
    2 months ago

    confused. so nothing will happen, a lot of talk and EU makes a law thats only applied locally if memberstates agree?!?

  • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    155·
    2 months ago

    “AI” is a scam that’s contributing to planetary destruction. But it’s nowhere near a problem on the same scale. This kind of political theater only fuels the “AI” BS.