How tech companies could shrink AI’s climate footprint

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AI is rapidly transforming how we live, work, and communicate. But can we undergo that transformation without destroying the environment? Hiroshi Watanabe/Getty Images

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In 2018, computer scientist Sasha Luccioni was an AI researcher for Morgan Stanley — and couldn’t shake this existential worry.

“I essentially was getting more and more climate anxiety. I was really feeling this profound disconnect between my job and my values and the things that I cared about,” Luccioni told NPR.

So Luccioni quit her job.

Now the Climate Lead at

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