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MEMPHIS, Tennessee — Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company is belching smog-forming pollution into an area of South Memphis that already leads the state in emergency department visits for asthma.

None of the 35 methane gas turbines that help power xAI’s massive supercomputer is equipped with pollution controls typically required by federal rules.

The company has no Clean Air Act permits.

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[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 26 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

“If you let me do this, I promise ai will invent a cure for asthma.”

“We need fewer regulations and more money so we can bring about AI gods that will cure all diseases and fix climate change.”

“We will boil the planet to the edge of survivability and at the last moment, a super intelligence will be born that knows how to fix it all and return our planet to normal.”

[–] T156@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Ah, the technocratic solution. "We're fine leaving things as-is, because someone will invent a thing to fix it soon".