AI’s massive energy use is giving fossil fuels a lifeline when they should be rapidly phased out in response to the climate emergency. Meta’s Mesa Data Center, Arizona -- image via Meta By Jean Su & John Fleming, Common Dreams What started as rivulets of hype, hope, and alarm over artificial intelligence have combined into a tsunami-level wave washing over the American consciousness. ChatGPT is the most downloaded application in history, AI stock prices are hitting record ma

We should all be frightened by this use of AI for death and destruction. But this is not new. Israel and the U.S. have been testing and...