Author: Francesco Grillo, Academic Fellow, Department of Social and Political Sciences, Bocconi University

Will AI be good or bad for the climate? Here’s what the latest evidence on energy use suggests

Francesco Grillo, Academic Fellow, Department of Social and Political Sciences, Bocconi UniversityLeave a Comment on Will AI be good or bad for the climate? Here’s what the latest evidence on energy use suggests

Is AI a climate change villain, whose insatiable hunger for electricity will roast the planet? Or will it help predict where the next climate disaster will strike and what to do about it? In order to weigh these questions up, a good starting point is with AI’s energy consumption. The 2015 Paris agreement was a […]

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Europe needs to fight back against US software dominance – and now is the time

Francesco Grillo, Academic Fellow, Department of Social and Political Sciences, Bocconi UniversityLeave a Comment on Europe needs to fight back against US software dominance – and now is the time

Europe’s relationship with American technology increasingly resembles an addiction. The patient knows it’s bad for them but cannot quite bring themselves to break it, because they don’t not know where to start. And yet everyone agrees that the longer the addict waits, the higher the price of the addiction becomes. That is the real question […]

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