The Impact of AI on Energy and Material Use

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AI technology is revolutionizing the energy sector by enhancing efficiency and safety in processes like fracking. While AI can help in increasing energy production, it also leads to a significant acceleration in material use, such as sand in fracking operations. This dynamic showcases a scenario where more energy is being extracted, but at the cost of escalating material consumption, portraying a complex relationship between AI, energy, and material use.

Recorded March 5 2024

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In this Frankly, Nate shares his perspective on the new all-time high in oil production in the context of AI’s growing influence in the financial markets and technology space. While ‘all liquids’ just hit an all time high, the varying categories of what is considered oil obfuscates a long plateau that is starting to decline. However, given AI’s expanding reach, it may not only invent ways of getting a higher percentage of Original Oil In Place to our economies, but also increase demand for energy worldwide. In similar fashion to shale fracking, MMT, and debt, AI will increasingly widen the resource extraction/ecosystem damage “straw”. Artificial intelligence is potentially a wonderful tool, but it is lower down the hierarchy than money/power maximization and thus will accelerate, not diminish climate change and other environmental damages. Can we resist the cleverness of AI and its ability to drain sources to the very last drop to instead navigate the road to the Great Simplification with wisdom?

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