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Bezos' $10 billion climate charity has a new mission: promoting AI (oligarchwatch.substack.com)

submitted 7 months ago by silence7@slrpnk.net to c/climate@slrpnk.net

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The Bezos Earth Fund is focused on selling artificial intelligence — the technology driving Amazon's rising carbon emissions — as the solution to the climate crisis

The claim that AI is going to solve the climate crisis is of course total bullshit

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[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 22 points 7 months ago (2 children)

🤦 next up: charity with a mission to promote billionaire-positivity.

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[–] cnirrad@lemmy.world 18 points 7 months ago*

Most of these charities are just laundering the billionaires reputation, so they already have that mission

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