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by JasonADrury 147 days ago
The fact that a technology being used by literally billions of people has a wikipedia page listing only 15 related deaths does not seem to suggest that the technology is dangerous.
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15 that we know of, so far. People outside the HN crowd just started using AI pretty recently. There’s also a case to be made that the increased pollution has a certain death toll as well. We know that fossil fuels, construction, manufacturing, and even noise all produce pollution that reduce the average lifespan in a given area. Some of these data centers are being run off gas turbines which are very dirty.
I remember seeing people make similar arguments in the early days of OxyContin’s takeover.

The length of the Wikipedia article at this point isn’t good evidence of either side.