Lisbon, Nov 14, 2024 (AFP) - 'Terrible' AI has given tech an existential headache: activist

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2024-11-14

Technology firms are ceaselessly promoting new AI products, but climate activist Sage Lenier says AI is useless, unsustainable and has given the industry an existential problem. "AI has no benefit to society," she told AFP on the sidelines of the Web Summit tech conference in Lisbon. The CEOs who have become enraptured by a "useless" product class have smashed the idea of tech as an essential utility. "And now they have an existential problem,"......

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