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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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[–] j_elgato@leminal.space 65 points 7 months ago (1 child)

Uh, guys.. I'm starting to think that maybe this Bezos fellow is not on our side?

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[–] silence7@slrpnk.net [S] 28 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

He only created the Bezos Earth fund because of employee organizing. It was a way to buy off the environmental nonprofits so that he was less likely to face a union

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