Artificial Incongruence - Amid the AI noise the sustainability challenge must be addressed

May seems to have been the unofficial artificial intelligence (AI) month. Every day seemed to bring a new development, every conversation seemed to include it, every opinion writer weighed in on it. The noise built to a dramatic crescendo the day before the end of the month. On 30 May, the newly formed 'Center (sic) for AI Safety' (CAIS), published the most wonderfully punchy position statement I can remember: "Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war." Let's park, for the moment, what...