Chat GPT came so fast we forgot to run the societal playbook on it, one step of which is criticizing its carbon footprint. I marvel at our collective ability to demonize blockchains on this and then stay mum on AI. So I asked Chat GPT about its impact. This is what I learned: I first wanted to understand how many carbon emissions an average Chat GPT response emits. After all, it takes a lot of compute power to process the question, scan all of the data and provide a miraculously human readable response.

I worked in bank liquidity and treasury for the better part of the last decade, and there is one very interesting risk factor from the SVB collapse that I do not think we have ever witnessed before in modern finance, a 🧵: First, some context. Following the 2008 financial crisis where a massive driver of stress was caused by low quality assets littering the balance sheets of massive institutions, the regulators sought to create a framework to ensure all banks were verifiably sound.