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> Am I missing something here?

Perhaps that the base environmental cost of a living human being is incurred no matter what they're doing. Replacing them with LLMs is just adding a new cost on top of the existing one. It is not removing the cost of the human.

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Yes this is the closest we came to an an argument against as well.

The reason it did not fly by us was that this means no technology that improves productivity (electric taxi) can ever be ESG. This did not make sense.

How does an electric taxi improve productivity?

I actually don't think it means that at all, honestly. There are plenty of technologies that cause a greater savings than cost. It doesn't appear the genAI is one of them at this time.

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