By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail

A reader asked “What is the deal with AI and water usage?”. This broadly speaks to ongoing discussion around AI and resource usage. The popular debate generally centers around claims that AI datacenters are using too much water and that this resource usage is harming people. The argument is then positioned as an example of the upper-class putting finite resources toward a luxury at the expense of the lower-class. Rich versus poor, the haves versus the have-nots, bourgeoisie v

This piece is an add-on or ‘bonus’ to the previous article: Overdependence on AI Art. That article explored a response to a reader’s question and one challenge identified in a particular risk was determining how to objectively define what ‘good’ is within the context of ideal art that should be protected. For further context please see the previous article. Here is a breakdown of the five potential ways ‘good’ could have been defined using movies as an example. For the purpos