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Machines That Fail Us - Season 2, Episode 5: "Heating Algorithms: AI and the Climate Crisis"
Episode 5 • 25th July 2025 • Machines that fail us • University of St. Gallen, Philip Di Salvo
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Artificial intelligence promises a smarter future, but at what cost? In this final episode of “Machines That Fail Us”, we take a look at the often-overlooked environmental footprint of AI’s relentless hunger for data and computing power.

We discuss these issues with Noman Bashir, the Computing & Climate Impact Fellow at the MIT Climate & Sustainability Consortium and a researcher at the MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

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