AI is thirstier than humans. AI is hungrier than humans. We have created a technological beast that competes with us for the most basic resources.
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In theory, humanity is hurtling toward a future of utopia sustained by technological progress. In reality, we are creating technological beasts that compete with us for the most basic resources: water, energy, land.
In a mercantile society, resources can be allocated only to that which produces capital value. If biological means of production are more costly than technological means of production, why would natural resources be shared with unproductive humans?
In this utopian future, humans will be freed of labour but not free to roam the Earth, not free to consume Earth’s resources, not free from the bondage of technological consumption.
We thought technology would be an appendage of life on this planet, instead life is becoming an appendage of technology.
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Thank you for reading,
—Claudia
It’s true that ai needs energy, water, and land, but I’m not sure it’s competing with humans for those resources.
Even if we use the most extreme projections for how much energy, water, and land ai will consume in the future, it will still use only about 1.7% of total human energy use, 0.04% of total human water use, and 0.01% of total land use.
If anything is competing for those resources it’s cows, which make up 8-10% of human energy use, 10-20% of human water use, and 40%-50% of human land use.
(Rough ChatGPT math….)