Blood, sweat and metals : the consequences of AI on people and the Earth. Have we been dazzled again by the glow of Silicon Valley and the promise of artificial intelligence? VPRO Tegenlicht shows the reality behind the smokescreen that Silicon Valley is telling us, speaks to people involved in dissecting the global AI industry, and uses the capabilities of the latest AI products -

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to depict the places and give people a face that Big Tech would rather not be seen. Because behind the recent success of AI lies the use of even more raw materials, even more data, even more computing power and even larger server parks. If you zoom out, you'll see that AI is a hungry beast that needs to be fed with the fastest chips, huge data sets and low-paid labor. In the form of silicon mines, endless rows of power, guzzling servers, or Syrians labeling data for the next generation of generative AI. AI does not appear to be a divine machine, but an industry that costs blood, sweat and metals. A system of extraction and exploitation on an industrial scale with major consequences for the Earth and humans. This is a summary of the broadcast Watch the entire episode here: ' The price of AI.


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