AI guilt debates look arbitrary next to the water footprint of dairy milk
PeterDiamandis · x · 2026-07-21
The post argues that people have started assigning guilt to technologies in arbitrary ways.
It contrasts the water footprint of dairy milk with the water used for a year of chatting with AI, saying the latter is tiny by comparison. The broader point is that society often debates which technologies deserve moral scrutiny, rather than judging them consistently.
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