{"podcast":{"title":"I've Got Questions with Sinead Bovell","slug":"i-ve-got-questions-with-sinead-bovell-7500610","podcast_index_feed_id":7500610,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/igq","website_url":"https://www.igqwithsineadbovell.com","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/39a71cf2-93da-11f0-83a2-e7b4c0f14348/image/415a1ccf3d1dcbb1e8e942aff7599558.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Sinead Bovell","episode_count":25,"summary":"I've Got Questions is your front-row seat to understanding how AI and emerging technologies are reshaping our world and your life. Hosted by futurist Sinead Bovell, the show cuts through the noise to explore what’s happening beneath the surface of today’s biggest tech shifts, and what they signal about tomorrow. Each week, Sinead sits down with the people building the tools, setting the policies, and shaping the ideas that will define the next chapter of human life. These are conversations designed to help you understand what’s changing, anticipate where things are heading, and steer toward the futures you want to live in.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-10T04:17:35.919163+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/i-ve-got-questions-with-sinead-bovell-7500610"},"episode":{"title":"Leading AI Professor: We Must Address AI's Climate Impact Before It’s Too Late | Kate Crawford","slug":"leading-ai-professor-we-must-address-ai-s-climate-impact-before-it-s-too-late-kate-crawford","published_at":"2025-10-16T07:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/i-ve-got-questions-with-sinead-bovell-7500610/leading-ai-professor-we-must-address-ai-s-climate-impact-before-it-s-too-late-kate-crawford","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/i-ve-got-questions-with-sinead-bovell-7500610","url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/LLAAY1245585688.mp3","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/LLAAY1245585688.mp3","summary":"In this episode of I’ve Got Questions, I sit down with leading AI scholar Kate Crawford, professor at USC, and author of award-winning Atlas of AI to examine the environmental, social, and ethical costs of artificial intelligence. We break down how AI is an extension of earth’s resources with giant data centers that use huge amounts of electricity, water, and minerals. We discuss how this is putting pressure on the planet and on communities that often go unseen. Kate breaks down how the global “AI race” between countries is creating new risks and what it will take from us to build technology that helps both people and the planet. 0:00 – Introduction 1:00 – Why Kate Crawford Says AI Isn’t “Virtual” — It’s Industrial 2:30 – The Hidden Environmental Cost of AI Models 4:05 – How AI Competes with Humans for Survival Resources 6:00 – Data Centers, Fossil Fuels, and Real-World Harm to Communities 8:00 – The Illusion of “Efficiency” and the Jevons Paradox 10:30 – How Behavioral Change Fuels the AI Explosion 12:00 – What Happens If We Don’t Change How We Build AI 14:00 – Why China’s Energy Strategy Is Beating the U.S. 16:00 – The False Choice: National Security or the Planet 18:00 – Shifting Responsibility from Individuals to Systems 20:00 – The Structural Design Failure Behind AI’s Carbon Footprint 22:00 – How Race Dynamics and Geopolitics Drive Destructive AI Growth 24:00 – Why Concentrated AI Power Threatens Democracy 26:00 – Nationalism, Cooperation, and the Future of Global AI Policy 28:00 – Why Technology Is Never Neutral 30:00 – The Myths and Realities of “AI for Climate” 32:00 – What Smaller, Efficient AI Could Look Like 33:00 – The Billionaire Empire Behind the AI Revolution 35:00 – AI as the Continuation of Historical Power Structures 38:00 – The Long Arc of Empires a…","meta_description":"In this episode of I’ve Got Questions, I sit down with leading AI scholar Kate Crawford, professor at USC, and author of award-winning Atlas of AI to exam…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2948,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/i-ve-got-questions-with-sinead-bovell-7500610/episodes/leading-ai-professor-we-must-address-ai-s-climate-impact-before-it-s-too-late-kate-crawford/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/i-ve-got-questions-with-sinead-bovell-7500610/leading-ai-professor-we-must-address-ai-s-climate-impact-before-it-s-too-late-kate-crawford.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}