1. Executive Summary

For example, if spread of deepfake nonconsensual pornography the AI industry improves data center energy like that of Taylor Swift.21 Yet the AI industry eciency by 10% but also doubling the number continues to ignore these immediate liabilities of data centers, it would lead to an 80% increase in favor of a theoretical future and engages in in global carbon emissions. [...] employing the technologies now or within the next five years to extract more oil in less time.48 ExxonMobil now highlights its use of AI in deep- water drilling and the Permian Basin.49 Scientists estimate that the world would need to leave 20% of already-approved-for-production oil and gas resources in the ground to remain within the carbon budget for 1.5 degree Celsius targets,50 making this inc. [...] Many of the high risk, 3) limited risk and 4) minimal risk.124 biggest AI companies, including Google, OpenAI, Meta and Amazon, announced a set of voluntary Unacceptable uses of AI include: biometric data commitments alongside the President of the that uses sensitive characteristics; untargeted United States in July 2023, that others soon scraping of facial images from the internet to followed.125. [...] Lower-risk AI and they attempted to reassure users that systems, sometimes called “general purpose Meta “plans to update the Manipulated Media AI,” are subject to less-stringent oversight, but policy to respond to the evolution of new and must provide the user with notice that they are increasingly realistic AI.”126 interacting with an AI system and provide an explanation of how an output was gene. [...] Governments must urgently study the problem and implement comprehensive AI regulations to fully understand the threats to climate change and protect against them, using a systems-wide approach to the health, integrity and resilience of the information ecosystem.