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The talk highlights several positive uses of AI, from Bangalore’s smart traffic lights reducing congestion to AI-powered cameras ensuring traffic law compliance, and early cancer detection systems that save lives at lower costs. These examples demonstrate AI’s potential benefit when deployed correctly.
However, the speaker raises a critical concern: AI’s environmental footprint. Data centers powering AI models consume enormous energy, contributing to climate change. A single query to models like GPT can produce three times the carbon footprint of an individual’s daily activities. Given the scale of AI usage worldwide, this raises urgent questions about sustainability and responsible deployment.