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<h1 data-aos="fade-down" id="daily-dose">Daily-Dose</h1>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom" id="contents">Contents</h1>
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<li><a href="#from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-vox">From Vox</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-jokes-subreddit">From Jokes Subreddit</a></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</h1>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Aftermath of China’s Comedy Crackdown</strong> - Standup flourished during the pandemic. Now performers fear the state—and audience members. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/the-aftermath-of-chinas-comedy-crackdown">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>What Have Fourteen Years of Conservative Rule Done to Britain?</strong> - Living standards have fallen. The country is exhausted by constant drama. But the U.K. can’t move on from the Tories without facing up to the damage that has occurred. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/04/01/what-have-fourteen-years-of-conservative-rule-done-to-britain">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Lila Neugebauer Interrogates the Ghosts of “Uncle Vanya”</strong> - A director of the modern uncanny steers the first Broadway production of Chekhov’s masterpiece in twenty years. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/04/01/lila-neugebauer-profile-theatre">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Bryan Stevenson Reclaims the Monument, in the Heart of the Deep South</strong> - The civil-rights attorney has created a museum, a memorial, and, now, a sculpture park, indicting the city of Montgomery—a former capital of the domestic slave trade and the cradle of the Confederacy. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/04/01/bryan-stevenson-reclaims-the-monument-in-the-heart-of-the-deep-south">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>A Dutch Architect’s Vision of Cities That Float on Water</strong> - What if building on the water could be safer and sturdier than building on flood-prone land? - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/04/01/a-dutch-architects-vision-of-cities-that-float-on-water">link</a></p></li>
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<li><strong>ISIS-K, the group linked to Moscow’s terror attack, explained</strong> -
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<img alt="A woman and child are among a crowd of people outside a large concert hall, laying flowers at the base of a pile of flowers, candles, and other memorial tokens. " src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/4YmwgDkq9CbFCv9lqnwpvTR8St8=/342x0:5771x4072/1310x983/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/73238427/2110551920.0.jpg"/>
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People lay flowers at Crocus City Hall in Moscow, the concert hall where a terror attack killed at least 140 people on March 22. | Sefa Karacan/Anadolu via Getty Images
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ISIS-K has become a global terror threat while the world has been distracted.
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The Islamic State — the notorious group known for building a brutal regime in Iraq and Syria — has claimed responsibility for Friday’s terror attack at a Moscow concert venue that killed at least 139 people.
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ISIS released graphic <a href="https://meduza.io/en/news/2024/03/24/isis-affiliated-media-publish-graphic-body-cam-footage-from-moscow-terrorist-attack">footage via its media apparatus</a>, claiming that it was their gunmen who left more than 100 people injured at the Crocus City concert hall. And it likely is the case, despite <a href="https://www.vox.com/russia">Russia</a>’s attempts to tie the incident to Ukraine. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/22/world/europe/isis-moscow-attack-concert-hall.html">US intelligence officials</a> linked the terror group’s outpost in the <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/26326469?seq=4#metadata_info_tab_contents">historical Khorasan region</a> — which encompasses parts of <a href="https://www.vox.com/afghanistan">Afghanistan</a>, Iran, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan — to the attack. Russian President Vladimir Putin acknowledged that Islamic radicals perpetrated the attack, but the Kremlin has <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putins-hawks-say-ukraine-was-involved-deadly-moscow-concert-attack-2024-03-26/">still tried to link Ukraine to the incident</a>.
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“We know by whose hand the crime against Russia and its people was committed. But what is of interest to us is who ordered it,” <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-casts-doubt-islamic-state-responsibility-concert-attack-2024-03-25/">Putin said in a video address Monday</a>.
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ISIS has always been somewhat rhizomatic, with offshoots connected to<strong> </strong>the main entity in Iraq and Syria.
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For years, ISIS welcomed the emergence of affiliate groups that might have more local or regional goals, like ISIS-K and ISIS-West Africa, as long as they pledged allegiance<a href="https://carnegieendowment.org/sada/90221"> to the caliphate</a> ISIS had declared. But after ISIS suffered a major territorial defeat in Iraq and Syria five years ago, ISIS-K has since solidified its distinct political grievances, which center around its battle for power with the Taliban in Afghanistan. And because of its location in a fairly lawless region, the group can recruit and train without significant interference.
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For ISIS-K and the larger group, attacking Russia is a logical outgrowth of ISIS’s territorial defeat, since Russia supports the Assad regime in Syria and helped it regain control of the land ISIS briefly held. ISIS-K also has grievances with Russia because of its 1979-1989 war in Afghanistan, as well as Russia’s slaughter of Chechen Muslims in its war there.
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While it seems like ISIS-K holds some degree of responsibility, just how much the organization was involved in Friday’s attack is a lot less clear, according to Riccardo Valle, the director of research at <a href="https://thekhorasandiary.com/">the Khorasan Diary</a>, which provides analysis on non-state and militant actors in the region.
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“There are several hints, some stronger, some weaker, that could suggest the involvement of the Islamic State of Khorasan branch in the implementation of the attack,” Valle told Vox, “from providing financial support or logistic support, operational support, or could be also more limited involvement,” like using its Russian- and Tajik-language propaganda to encourage local ISIS cells in Russia to attack.
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There’s a lot of noise around ISIS-K, and whether the Moscow attack means ISIS is “back” — meaning it has the ability to carry out attacks in Western countries and hold territory the way it did a decade ago. While it’s difficult to say what ISIS-K or the core group might do next, recent events show that the threat of extremism isn’t gone.
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What we know about ISIS and its affiliates now
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ISIS is an extremist group that follows a fundamentalist version of Sunni Islam and grew out of Al Qaeda’s Iraqi affiliate following the US invasion there in 2003. It gained prominence, though, in 2014 when it captured large swaths of Iraq and Syria. That was central to the group’s primary goal: to establish a global caliphate — traditionally understood as an <a href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Caliphate">Islamic political and religious state</a> like the one that existed following the death of the prophet Muhammad, but which ISIS interpreted in a much more violent and repressive manner, especially when it came to women and religious minorities.
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The nature of ISIS has always been somewhat diffuse; it has historically claimed <a href="https://understandingwar.org/sites/default/files/GLOBAL%20ROLLUP%20Update.pdf">attacks or groups</a>, like a splinter faction of <a href="https://www.crisisgroup.org/africa/west-africa/nigeria/after-shekau-confronting-jihadists-nigerias-north-east">Boko Haram in northwestern Africa</a>, often referred to as ISWAP, that pledges its allegiance to the broader organization, even encouraging lone wolf actors to increase its reach.
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“It’s much more about ‘taking the fight to our enemies,’ rather than focused on particularly the nuances of Islamic theology,” <a href="https://www.csis.org/people/daniel-byman">Daniel Byman</a>, senior fellow with the <a href="https://www.csis.org/programs/transnational-threats-project">Transnational Threats Project</a> at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told Vox.
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And that broad ideology incorporates political motivations as well as religious ones. So although according to ISIS the US, <a href="https://www.vox.com/israel">Israel</a>, Europe, Iran, and Russia are all “idolators,” or enemies based on religious affiliation, they’re also political adversaries. In other words, ISIS is predominantly interested in creating that global caliphate over which it maintains territorial, ideological, and political control.
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Enter: ISIS-K.
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The group was founded in 2014 or 2015 (around the same time as the core ISIS group rose to prominence) as <a href="https://www.vox.com/2021/8/27/22643461/isis-k-kabul-airport-afghanistan-taliban">something of an offshoot of the original group</a>. It was also founded in opposition to the Taliban and made the case for a global caliphate, not a national emirate like the Taliban wanted — particularly, the control of the entire Khorasan region.
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The historical Khorasan region is important to Islam, and particularly Islamic jihadist and messianic tradition <a href="https://www.hudson.org/national-security-defense/prophecy-the-jihad-in-the-indian-subcontinent#footNote1">because of a teaching attributed to the Prophet Muhammad</a>, which claims that Muslims will fight non-believers in the region at the end of the world.
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ISIS-K <a href="https://thediplomat.com/2015/02/islamic-state-in-afghanistan-start-of-a-turf-war/">has been fighting the Taliban since 2015</a> — a tension that really ramped up following the fall of Afghanistan’s elected government in August 2021 after the US withdrew.
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It has repeatedly attacked ethnic Hazara in Afghanistan under the Taliban regime — both as a repudiation of the minority group’s Shia ideology, but also to prove the Taliban’s poor handle on security in the country and its lack of willingness to protect minorities. The Taliban is also, according to ISIS-K, “just the natural successors to the Afghan Islamic Republic, and hence they are basically [allies] of all regional countries and of the United States [who are] all united to fight the Islamic State in Afghanistan and globally,” Valle said.
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But, again, given the group’s global focus, their conflict doesn’t stop with the Taliban.
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Russia became another natural target, for example. That’s in part because the core ISIS group sees the country as responsible for its destruction, due to Russia and Iran’s role in propping up the Assad regime in Syria, especially as it regained control of ISIS’s former caliphate. (It doesn’t help that both the Assad regime and Iranian government are Shia.)
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How to understand the ISIS threat now
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What is clear, according to the experts Vox spoke to, is that ISIS is still well coordinated and capable of causing harm across the region.
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Take the latest attack in Russia, which was pulled off in Moscow amid a war:
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“All that points to some significant training,” said <a href="https://thesoufancenter.org/team/colin-p-clarke/">Colin Clarke</a>, an analyst at the Soufan Center. “This wasn’t an example of an incident where some [random] radicalized Central Asians living in Russia were sitting around on their phones, imbibing ISIS propaganda, and they decided to launch an attack of their own.”
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We don’t know exactly what the directives for last Friday’s attack might have looked like or how much the core group is instructing affiliates — so we might never know the breakdown of how exactly it happened. Russia has <a href="https://apnews.com/article/russia-moscow-krasnogorsk-gunmen-concert-hall-fire-b719cbe27d26207955fd423b1e3ddc68">released photos of the alleged attackers</a>, but the exact order of operations and planning is unlikely to come out any time soon, both because of the nature of Russian propaganda and the groups themselves.
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More broadly: It’s difficult to tell how connected ISIS-K and other affiliates are to the core ISIS group, and to what extent the affiliates take direction from the core and coordinate with each other to carry out attacks.
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“These groups are basically fluid, they are not armies, they are not states,” Valle said. “So they move in a fluid manner. So we cannot [distinguish] from one to the other so sharply; sometimes people work with different entities and networks.”
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But in Afghanistan and parts of Pakistan where ISIS-K trains and operates, there’s very little ability for the Taliban — let alone the international community — to monitor or threaten the group.
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“Afghanistan has been a free-for-all” since the US withdrawal in 2021, Clarke said. “The US probably still has decent signals intelligence … but probably almost no human intelligence. And that’s gonna lead to some blind spots naturally. And so I think we don’t know a lot about what’s been going on in Afghanistan, clearly.”
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Though Western intelligence services adapted to the ISIS threat in the mid-2010s, Clarke noted that the world’s attention had turned away from those kinds of terror threats. “Now, it’s all about great power competition, <a href="https://www.vox.com/china">China</a>, <a href="https://www.vox.com/2023/4/28/23702644/artificial-intelligence-machine-learning-technology">artificial intelligence</a>, all these other things,” he said. “There’s a certain sense of terrorism fatigue, after 20 years of the global war on terrorism, people don’t want to think about it. They don’t want to talk about it. They don’t want to prepare for it.”
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But ISIS, and ISIS-K in particular, haven’t stopped training and planning just because the Western world stopped paying attention. The group’s bold and well-coordinated attack in Moscow, as well as the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/kerman-us-warning-isisk-bombings-bcb47f04165b3eb7b9bc7b4868c8399c">ISIS-K attack in Iran in January</a>, indicate that at least some affiliates possess the capabilities, funding, and motivation to inflict significant casualties and serious damage on their perceived enemies.
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And though the threat is diminished compared to the height of ISIS’s power in the mid-2010s, the overall terror threat is “in absolute terms, I would say it’s pretty high,” Valle said. Specifically, there is “risk that something similar or to a lesser extent — still dangerous — can happen also in Europe, and this is because in the last months of 2023 and the first months of 2024, several cells and local networks of militants were dismantled in Europe, in Austria, Germany, Netherlands, and the UK.”
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Indeed, both Italian and French authorities <a href="https://apnews.com/article/europe-italy-france-security-moscow-attack-d81b3f768a505e5b0f1a2369d705eab5">ramped up security following the attacks in Moscow</a>. Both countries have major cultural events upcoming — Holy Week celebrations in Italy and the Summer <a href="https://www.vox.com/olympics">Olympics</a> in Paris. ISIS-K has a pattern of attacking large cultural events, including <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/13/world/asia/shiite-mosque-attack-afghanistan.html">mosques during prayers in Afghanistan</a> and a memorial service for assassinated Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani in Iran earlier this year.
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But it’s important to note that European counterterror services are much more capable of detecting these kinds of threats than they were a decade ago. And US intelligence knew about the Iran and Moscow attacks before they happened, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/22/world/europe/isis-moscow-attack-concert-hall.html">warning both countries of the threats</a>.
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The energy needed to support data storage is expected to double by 2026. You can do something to stop it.
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In January, the International Energy Agency (IEA) issued its <a href="https://iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/6b2fd954-2017-408e-bf08-952fdd62118a/Electricity2024-Analysisandforecastto2026.pdf">forecast</a> for global energy use over the next two years. Included for the first time were projections for electricity consumption associated with data centers, <a href="https://www.vox.com/crypto">cryptocurrency</a>, and <a href="https://www.vox.com/2023/4/28/23702644/artificial-intelligence-machine-learning-technology">artificial intelligence</a>.
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The IEA estimates that, added together, this usage represented almost 2 percent of global energy demand in 2022 — and that demand for these uses could double by 2026, which would make it roughly equal to the amount of electricity used by the entire country of Japan.
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We live in the digital age, where many of the processes that guide our lives are hidden from us inside computer code. We are watched by machines behind the scenes that bill us when we cross toll bridges, guide us across the internet, and deliver us music we didn’t even know we wanted. All of this takes material to build and run — plastics, metals, wiring, water — and all of that comes with costs. Those costs require trade-offs.
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None of these trade-offs is as important as in energy. As the world heats up toward increasingly dangerous temperatures, we need to conserve as much energy as we can get to lower the amount of climate-heating gases we put into the air.
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That’s why the IEA’s numbers are so important, and why we need to demand more transparency and greener AI going forward. And it’s why right now we need to be conscientious consumers of new technologies, understanding that every bit of data we use, save, or generate has a real-world cost.
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One of the areas with the fastest-growing demand for energy is the form of machine learning called generative AI, which requires a lot of energy for training and a lot of energy for producing answers to queries. Training a large language model like OpenAI’s GPT-3, for example, <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2211.02001.pdf">uses</a> nearly 1,300 megawatt-hours (MWh) of electricity, the annual consumption of about <a href="https://www.theverge.com/24066646/ai-electricity-energy-watts-generative-consumption">130 US homes</a>. According to the IEA, a single Google search takes 0.3 watt-hours of electricity, while a ChatGPT request takes 2.9 watt-hours. (An incandescent light bulb draws an average of <a href="https://www.energysage.com/electricity/house-watts/how-many-watts-does-a-light-bulb-use/">60 watt-hours </a>of juice.) If ChatGPT were integrated into the 9 billion searches done each day, the IEA says, the electricity demand would increase by 10 terawatt=hours a year — the amount <a href="https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy">consumed</a> by about 1.5 million <a href="https://www.vox.com/european-union">European Union</a> residents.
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I recently spoke with <a href="https://huggingface.co/sasha">Sasha Luccioni</a>, lead climate researcher at an AI company called Hugging Face, which provides an open-source online platform for the machine learning community that supports the collaborative, ethical use of artificial intelligence. Luccioni has researched AI for more than a decade, and she understands how data storage and machine learning contribute to <a href="https://www.vox.com/climate">climate change</a> and energy consumption — and are set to contribute even more in the future.
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I asked her what any of us can do to be better consumers of this ravenous technology. This conversation has been edited for length and clarity.
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<strong>Brian Calvert</strong>
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AI seems to be everywhere. I’ve been in meetings where people joke that our machine overlords might be listening. What exactly is artificial intelligence? Why is it getting so much attention? And why should we worry about it right now — not in some distant future?
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<strong>Sasha Luccioni </strong>
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Artificial intelligence has actually been around as a field since the ’50s, and it’s gone through various “AI winters” and “AI summers.” Every time some new technique or approach gets developed, people get very excited about it, and then, inevitably, it ends up disappointing people, triggering an AI winter.
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We’re going through a bit of an AI summer when it comes to generative AI. We should definitely stay critical and reflect upon whether or not we should be using AI, or generative AI specifically, in applications where it wasn’t used before.
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<strong>Brian Calvert</strong>
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What do we know about the energy costs of this hot AI summer?
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<strong>Sasha Luccioni </strong>
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It’s really hard to say. With an appliance, you plug it into your socket and you know what energy grid it’s using and roughly how much energy it’s using. But with AI, it’s distributed. When you’re doing a Google Maps query, or you’re talking to ChatGPT, you don’t really know where the process is running. And there’s really no transparency with regard to AI deployment.
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From <a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/12/01/1084189/making-an-image-with-generative-ai-uses-as-much-energy-as-charging-your-phone/">my own research</a>, what I’ve found is that switching from a nongenerative, good old-fashioned quote-unquote AI approach to a generative one can use 30 to 40 times more energy for the exact same task. So, it’s adding up, and we’re definitely seeing the big-picture repercussions.
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<strong>Brian Calvert</strong>
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So, in material terms, we’ve got a lot of data, we’re storing a lot of data, we’ve got language models, we’ve got models that need to learn, and that takes energy and chips. What kind of things need to be built to support all this, and what are the environmental real-world impacts that this adds to our society?
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<strong>Sasha Luccioni</strong>
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Static data storage [like thumb drives] doesn’t, relatively speaking, consume that much energy. But the thing is that nowadays, we’re storing more and more data. You can search your Google Drive at any moment. So, connected storage — storage that’s connected to the internet — does consume more energy, compared to nonconnected storage.
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Training AI models consumes energy. Essentially you’re taking whatever data you want to train your model on and running it through your model like <em>thousands</em> of times. It’s going to be something like a thousand chips running for a thousand hours. Every generation of GPUs — the specialized chips for training AI models — tends to consume more energy than the previous generation.
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They’re more powerful, but they’re also more energy intensive. And people are using more and more of them because they want to train bigger and bigger AI models. It’s kind of this vicious circle. When you deploy AI models, you have to have them always on. ChatGPT is never off.
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<strong>Brian Calvert </strong>
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Then, of course, there’s also a cooling process. We’ve all felt our phones heat up, or had to move off the couch with our laptops — which are never truly on our laps for long. Servers at data centers also heat up. Can you explain a little bit how they are cooled down?
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<strong>Sasha Luccioni</strong>
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With a GPU, or with any kind of data center, the more intensely it runs, the more heat it’s going to emit. And so in order to cool those data centers down, there’s different kinds of techniques. Sometimes it’s air cooling, but majoritarily, it’s essentially circulating water. And so as these data centers get more and more dense, they also need more cooling, and so that uses <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/why-ai-so-thirsty-data-centers-use-massive-amounts-water-1882374">more and more water</a>.
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<strong>Brian Calvert </strong>
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We have an AI summer, and we have some excitement and some hype. But we also have the possibility of things scaling up quite a bit. How might AI data centers be different from the data centers that we already live with? What challenges will that present from an ecological or environmental perspective going forward?
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<strong>Sasha Luccioni </strong>
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Data centers need a lot of energy to run, especially the hyperscale ones that AI tends to run on. And they need to have reliable sources of energy.
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So, often they’re built in places where you have <a href="https://www.vox.com/fossil-fuels">nonrenewable energy sources</a>, like natural gas-generated energy or coal-generated energy, where you flip a switch and the energy is there. It’s harder to do that with solar or wind, because there’s often weather factors and things like that. And so what we’ve seen is that the big data centers are built in places where the grid is relatively carbon intensive.
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<strong>Brian Calvert</strong>
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What kinds of practices and policies should we be considering to either slow AI down or green it up?
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I think that we should be providing information so that people can make choices, at a minimum. Eventually being able to choose a model, for example, that is more energy efficient, if that’s something that people care about, or that was trained on noncopyrighted data. Something I’m working on now is kind of an Energy Star rating for AI models. Maybe some people don’t care, but other people will choose a more efficient model.
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What should I think about before upgrading my data plan? Or why should I hold off on asking AI to solve my kid’s math homework? What should any of us consider before getting more gadgetry or getting more involved with a learned machine?
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In France, they have this term, “<a href="https://www.culture.gouv.fr/en/Thematic/Ecological-transition/Adopting-digital-sobriety-in-the-management-of-cultural-structures">digital sobriety</a>.” Digital sobriety could be part of the actions that people can take as 21st-century consumers and users of this technology. I’m definitely not against having a smartphone or using AI, but asking yourself, “Do I need this new gadget?” “Do I really need to use ChatGPT for generating recipes?” “Do I need to be able to talk to my fridge or can I just, you know, open the door and look inside?” Things like that, right? If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it with generative AI.
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Twitter, now X, was once a useful site for breaking news. The Baltimore bridge collapse shows those days are long gone.
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Line up a few years’ worth of tragedies and disasters, and the online conversations about them will reveal their patterns.
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The same <a href="https://archive.is/gvOL9">conspiracy-theory-peddling</a> personalities who spammed X with posts claiming that Tuesday’s <a href="https://www.vox.com/2024/3/26/24112776/baltimore-bridge-collapse-francis-scott-key-maryland-cargo-ship-explainer-analysis">Baltimore bridge collapse </a>was a deliberate attack have also called mass shootings “false flag” events and <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/andrew-tate-tucker-carlson-ukraine-covid-b2373786.html">denied basic facts </a>about the <a href="https://www.vox.com/coronavirus-covid19">Covid-19 pandemic</a>. A Florida Republican running for Congress <a href="https://archive.is/QLoKA">blamed “DEI” </a>for the bridge collapse as racist comments <a href="https://newrepublic.com/post/180134/fox-news-racist-conspiracy-theory-baltimore-key-bridge-collapse">about immigration</a> and Baltimore <a href="https://twitter.com/chrislhayes/status/1772694080239063284">Mayor Brandon Scott</a> circulated among the far right. These comments echo Trump in 2019, who called Baltimore a “disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess,” and, in 2015, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/i-would-fix-it-fast-in-2015-trump-criticized-obama-for-not-doing-enough-to-help-baltimore/2019/07/29/d202ade2-b207-11e9-8f6c-7828e68cb15f_story.html">blamed</a> President Obama for the unrest in the city.
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As conspiracy theorists compete for attention in the wake of a tragedy, others seek engagement through <a href="https://www.garbageday.email/p/ceos-want-podcasters-now">dubious </a><a href="https://www.404media.co/baltimore-amateur-bridge-engineers-have-logged-on/">expertise</a>, juicy speculation, or stolen video clips. The boundary between <a href="https://www.vox.com/technology/2023/10/12/23913472/misinformation-israel-hamas-war-social-media-literacy-palestine">conspiracy theory and engagement bait is permeable</a>; unfounded and provoking posts often outpace the trickle of verified information that follows any sort of major breaking news event. Then, the conspiracy theories become content, and a lot of people marvel and express outrage that they exist. Then they kind of forget about the raging river of Bad Internet until the next national tragedy.
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I’ve seen it so many times. I became a breaking news reporter in 2012, which means that in internet years, I have the experience of an almost ancient entity. The collapse of the Francis Scott Key bridge into the Patapsco River, though, felt a little different from most of these moments for me, for two reasons.
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First, it was happening after a few big shifts in what the internet even is, as <a href="https://www.vox.com/twitter">Twitter</a>, once a go-to space for following breaking news events, became an <a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/12/15/1065013/twitter-brain-death/">Elon Musk-owned factory</a> for verified accounts with bad ideas, while <a href="https://www.vox.com/technology/24079459/sora-openai-video-tool-world-simulator">generative AI tools </a>have superpowered grifters wanting to make plausible text and visual fabrications. And second, I live in Baltimore. People I know commute on that bridge, which forms part of the city’s Beltway. Some of the <a href="https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/transportation/key-bridge-collapse-YDNMRSLMDREE7ADUZJQFQJ3WDA/">workers who fell,</a> now presumed dead, lived in a neighborhood across the park from me.
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The local cost of global misinformation
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On Tuesday evening, I called <a href="https://twitter.com/LisaESnowden">Lisa Snowden</a>, the editor-in-chief of the <a href="https://baltimorebeat.com/">Baltimore Beat</a><em> —</em> the city’s Black-owned alt-weekly — and an influential presence in Baltimore’s still pretty active X community. I wanted to talk about how following breaking news online has changed over time.
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Snowden was up during the <a href="https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/baltimore/key-bridge-collapse-ship-pilot-LKDWFY237JFR5NCR7KXZIWRDVA/">early morning hours </a>when the bridge collapsed. Baltimore’s X presence is small enough that journalists like her generally know who the other journalists are working in the city, especially those reporting on Baltimore itself. Almost as soon as news broke about the bridge, though, she saw accounts she’d never heard of before speaking with authority about what had happened, sharing unsourced video, and speculating about the cause.
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Over the next several hours, the misinformation and racism about Baltimore snowballed on X. For Snowden, this felt a bit like an invasion into a community that had so far survived the slow death of what was once Twitter by simply staying out of the spotlight.
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“Baltimore Twitter, it’s usually not as bad,” Snowden said. She sticks to the people she follows. “But today I noticed that was pretty much impossible. It got extremely racist. And I was seeing other folks in Baltimore also being like, ‘This might be what sends me finally off this app.’”
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Here are some of the tweets that got attention in the hours after the collapse: Paul Szypula, a MAGA <a href="https://www.vox.com/influencers">influencer</a> with more than 100,000 followers on X, <a href="https://archive.is/jhmGL">tweeted</a> “Synergy Marine Group [the company that owned the ship in question] promotes DEI in their company. Did anti-white business practices cause this disaster?” alongside a screenshot of a page on the company’s website that discussed the existence of a diversity and inclusion policy.
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That tweet got more than 600,000 views. Another far-right influencer speculated that there was some connection between the collapse and, I guess, Barack Obama? I don’t know. <a href="https://archive.is/mZSRg">The tweet</a> got 5 million views as of mid-day Wednesday.
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Being online during a tragic event is full of consequential nonsense like this, ideas and conspiracy theories that are inane enough to fall into the fog of <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2017/06/23/the-three-old-rules-that-explain-basically-the-entire-internet-in-2017/">Poe’s Law</a> and yet harmful to actual people and painful to see in particular when it’s your community being turned into views. Sure, there are<a href="https://www.vox.com/technology/2023/10/12/23913472/misinformation-israel-hamas-war-social-media-literacy-palestine"> best practices you can follow</a> to try to contribute to a better information ecosystem in these moments. Those practices matter. But for Snowden, the main thing she can do as her newsroom gets to work reporting on the impact of this disaster on the community here is to let time march on.
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“In a couple days, this terrible racist mob, or whatever it is, is going to be onto something else,” Snowden said. “ Baltimore … people are still going to need things. Everybody’s still going to be working. So I’m just kind of waiting it out,” she said “But it does hurt.”
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<em>A version of this story was published in the Vox Technology newsletter. </em><a href="https://www.vox.com/pages/newsletters"><em><strong>Sign up here</strong></em></a><em> so you don’t miss the next one!</em>
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