AI Goes on Trial at Climate Week
The UN's climate chief says AI leaders are "on thin ice," Türkiye is floating a pledge on the technology's energy use, and protesters are massing outside Amazon and OpenAI. Meanwhile single data centres now draw power on the scale of Houston, and Washington is tearing up the emissions rules to feed them.
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IBM, McKinsey and the big cloud players are all converging on the same model: tiny teams of "forward-deployed engineers" running armies of agents, paid for outcomes instead of hours. It quietly rewrites the economics of consulting, and the market is already pricing in the damage to the old IT giants.
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Nearly half of workers now say they spend more time directing AI than doing their own work. It looks like management and feels like management, but only 17 percent of those whose roles changed got promoted. The output flows up to the company; the responsibility, and the flat pay, stay with the worker.
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