Generative AI is a powerful new tool that has already disrupted the way people worldwide work, teach, and even plan their road trips. But using AI at scale comes at an energy cost that governments, local communities, and researchers are scrambling to plan for, as tech companies push its widespread use.
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Sophia Chen is a science journalist who covers physics and computing in publications including Nature, MIT Technology Review, and Wired, and she writes for the YouTube show Physics Girl, which has over 3.4 million subscribers. In 2022, she was the science communicator in residence at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at the University of California, Berkeley. She lives in Columbus, Ohio.
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