AI practitioner interrupted at lunch by stranger over AI's environmental impact
neal_lathia · x · 2026-10-19
AI practitioner neallathia shared a first-time experience: while having lunch and chatting about AI, a stranger at the next table interrupted to ask "aren't you terrified of the environmental impact of all of this?" He replied that he couldn't properly discuss it or change anyone's mind in 30 seconds. The moment shows AI's environmental debate has entered everyday public conversation, with ordinary people voicing energy-consumption anxiety face-to-face.
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