We hear a lot about the potential of AI as well as its current shortcomings. What is often missing from these discussions is acknowledgement of AI’s environmental harms.

Timed to coincide with the AI Action Summit the statement outlines 15 demands to align AI within planetary boundaries.

Signatories of the statement come from from a wide spectrum including environmental and climate justice, human rights, open source technology and infrastructure, digital rights, feminist technology.

Read the summary from the Green Web Foundation and the full report in the link above

404 Media has further reporting on Deepseek and the ripples its announcement created in this piece.

More widely, 404 and Wired are doing excellent investigative journalism into the Trump administration and tech and deserve engagement and support in doing so.

While tech news from the US seems bleak at the moment, it’s worth remembering that the EU continues to do important work in the digital space.

In this Wholegrain piece Bailey outlines imminent changes in web accessibility legislation. The web can’t be sustainable without equity of access for all.

On the 18th February Bailey Bryan and Chris Lewis from Wholegrain Digital join Christina de Pointers from Amplifi to highlight how carbon emissions can be slashed through savvy digital practices!

We aim to explore practical steps that can be taken to reduce digital emissions, whether you’re a mindful individual or have the capacity to make a bigger difference within your business. The session will be one hour with the opportunity to interact and ask questions.

• Did you know that through design and coding techniques you can lower the carbon emissions of your website while also improving your website’s engagement?

• Do you know how your hosting provider powers your website? Is it using renewable energy?

• What about emails, files, storage, data? What impact does this have and how can you reduce it?

• And how about the carbon and creative impact of AI tools?

Book your free ticket now.

When one of my technophobic friends told me “listen to this podcast called Shell Game. Let’s talk after episode 3” I was intrigued.

The podcast follows Evan Ratcliff as he uses a ChatGPT powered chatbot to talk to scammers, customer service operatives and his friends and family.

The whole series is fascinating. The third episode sees two versions of the chatbot “talking” to each other and is uncannily weird and insightful. It does a brilliant job of showing where the technology is now and showing how it might be used in the nearish future.

1 – How bland and transactional the interactions were. The chatbot sounds like the most tedious customer service conversation you’ve ever encountered.

2 – Connection for connection’s sake didn’t factor into the conversations. All the conversations had to have a point or end goal.

3 – These end goals weren’t always in the bot’s power to enact. When talking to Evan’s friends or family the bot would suggest getting together for a beer or a camping weekend..

What you take out of the series depends on your view of AI and its role in our daily lives. For me it left me thinking that rather than asking how AI could make our lives more efficient, we should be asking how bland and transactional we want our lives and society to be?

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