Google pulls out of fossil AI
After tech companies came under fire a few months ago for their work with oil and gas companies, leading to the #techwontdrill it pledge (see DT #33), Google has now committed that it will no longer enter into new agreements to “build custom AI/ML algorithms to facilitate upstream extraction in the oil and gas industry.” This information comes from a new Greenpeace report which I’ll cover in more detail in a future edition of DT.