Will AI save the planet? Why the evidence is flawed
A new report questions the research that concludes AI is good for the planet - the reality is not that clear-cut.
AI comes with a significant climate cost. It also has applications useful for addressing climate change. How should we approach the paradox of AI and the climate? theconversation.com/will-ai-save...
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Three book-length works by poets this year fascinated and moved me with the different ways they drew so much verbal life and dark comedy from contemporary landscapes of poverty and violence. Rachael Allen’s God Complex (Faber) painted corrupted depths of love with a brush streaked in bright toxins and ironic wrongness (“Cute and early bruise”); Timothy Thornton’s Candles and Water (Pilot Press) told of queerness and ghostliness, addiction and grief, in short prose of great imaginative richness and honesty, dropping immaculately modulated phrases on every page (“the flicker of ghost water meeting itself along a shear”); and Gboyega Odubanjo’s posthumous debut, Adam (Faber), took the story of the torso of a Black boy found in the Thames in 2001 and explored its symbolism for the poet’s youth in a London where “the streets are paved with cousins”. It’s a profound loss that his first book is also his last.
My poetry Books of the Year for the Times Literary Supplement: Rachael Allen, Timothy Thornton and Gboyega Odubanjo
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