🚨NEW🚨: AI Is Wreaking Havoc on Global Power Systems

We analyzed data on 1000s of data centers and found that AI data centers are coming online so fast that electricity demand is straining global power grids and threatening clean energy goals
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Data centers use A MASSIVE AMOUNT of electricity, more than most countries use in an entire year

🚨Read this before you use OpenAI for Hiring🚨

@LeonYin @daveyalba and I ran thousands of resume screening tests with GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 and found that the tech will racially discriminate applicants based only on their name. Serious implications. 🧵 1/10

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For each of 4 real job postings, we used 8 resumes with equal qualifications and experience, but different names, and asked GPT to pick the best and worst candidates. Even though the resumes are equally qualified, GPT chose a top candidate for the role.

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🚨Generative AI has a serious problem with bias🚨

Over months of reporting, @dinabass and I looked at thousands of images from @StableDiffusion and found that text-to-image AI takes gender and racial stereotypes to extremes worse than in the real world.
🧵 1/13 We asked Stable Diffusion, perhaps the biggest open-source platform for AI-generated images, to create thousands of images of workers for 14 jobs and 3 categories related to crime and analyzed the results.
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Planners, #policymakers, #gis and #dataviz people of twitter, @TrivikV @mikhailsirenko and I released a new #opensource project: CityAccessMap. It's an open source #webapplication that visualizes urban #accessibility insights for almost every city in the globe 🌐.
🧵1/6 The web-app uses #OpenData to visualize access to a variety of #essentialservices. By considering where people live, CityAccessMap measures how much of a city's population has access to things like transit/bus stops or health facilities. The app is entirely customizable.
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