AI Can Help Reduce Wildfire Risks
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I have often wondered, "What can I do, using technology, to help make life better?"
And, too often, the answer is "I need to undo what sociopathic and uncaring people have done, using technology"
PG&E faked inspections, and got away with it thanks to a captive public utility commission. Gigawatts and terawatts for what? This started with Google and the like building massive data centers basically to drive advertising. Search, social and even commerce can be done on small scale without the exploitation. [0] Craig Newmark started Craig's List with servers in his closet.
It takes very little to do good, so we go to enormous lengths, expense and power consumption to do great harm. "For the Bucks"
Worst case, "because the other guy is doing it", leading to arms races, espionage and hacking armies, and the new AI wars.
[0] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1057/jit.2015.5