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The speaker imagines that if a highly intelligent, conscious machine were built and immediately asked to solve climate change, it would point to its own carbon footprint and say it should not have been built.
Adam Becker · Every Exponential Ends — Silicon Valley Forgot — Adam Becker · 20 Aug 2026
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“if we did that and asked it to solve climate crisis the minute we turn it on, it would say, well, you shouldn't have built me.”
“Look at my carbon footprint.”Play from 43:13Report a misattribution
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