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Elyse Hauser

Environmental journalist and master in Fine Arts (MFA) in fiction at the University of New Orleans and training at the Research Journalism Center (SUJO) in Bergen, Norway.

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AI regulation must do more than avoid certain doom

The regulation of artificial intelligence cannot be limited to preventing a global catastrophe; it must also curb the environmental and social destruction that its infrastructure is already causing in specific territories.

The AI arms race: Patagonia is Argentina’s cybernetic frontier

Milei’s proposed reforms threaten vulnerable ecosystems that are vital to biodiversity, bodies of water, and cultures. Protesters have helped block the most damaging reforms, but a lack of transparency in Argentina’s AI decision-making hampers the public’s ability to react and resist.

Biokleptocratic AI companies pose an existential risk

'' The rise of artificial intelligence entails significant environmental and social costs that, according to its critics, threaten essential common resources and deepen the concentration of power.