American Studies 191, Spring 2025 Noon section

"Technology should serve all of us. Not just the privileged few."

"Data & Society believes that technology policy must be grounded in empirical evidence, account for tech’s real-world impacts, and serve the public."

"While the exact burden is nearly impossible to quantify, The Washington Post worked with researchers at the University of California, Riverside to understand how much water and power Open AI's ChatGPT, using the GPT-4 language model released in March, 2023, consumes to write the average 100-word email.... Once weekly for a year by 1 out of 10 working Americans (roughly 16 millioin people) requires 435,235,476 liters, equal to the water consumed by all Rhode Island households for 1.5 days."