Republished on Green Isles with kind permission from our friends and colleagues at the Green European Journal. You can (and definitely should) subscribe to the GEJ here. World leaders and private investors are scrambling for a place in the AI gold rush. The arrival of China’s DeepSeek has shaken US dominance in the industry, and the EU is trying to catch up while containing the risk of unchecked technological change. But if AI is to deliver on its promise of an ecological and socially just revolution, its current model needs fundamental rethinking. by Florent Marcellesi Today, the favourite metaphor of the Western…
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Republished on Green Isles with kind permission from our friends and colleagues at the Green European Journal. You can (and definitely should) subscribe to the GEJ here. ChatGPT and other large language models are triggering a profound industrial reorganisation in the digital economy. Leading AI expert Kate Crawford looks at the risks posed by the extractive practices that lie behind these technologies. Green European Journal: The release of ChatGPT for public use has sparked worldwide hype around artificial intelligence. What are the politics and interests driving this and other similar large language models (LLMs)? Kate Crawford: The first thing to note is that…
