It’s been the theme of sci-fi horror flicks for decades: Artificial intelligence (AI) takes over the planet and pushes the human population to its brink. But now AI is part of our daily lives and has become a useful tool for many: transcribing meeting notes, offering language translation, offering healthcare diagnoses, and more… What could go wrong?
Movie theatrics aside, AI poses huge risks right now, as it threatens our water supplies, our climate goals, and our livable future.
**Join us as Food & Water Watch experts discuss our AI research and the real-life hazards of giant AI data centers.** These include decreasing public access to clean water, worsening climate-fueled droughts, skyrocketing our water and energy bills, endangering state budgets, increasing air pollution, and leading to dangerous proposals to ramp up nuclear power.