Would you trust a robot to teach your child or take care of your pet? Artificial intelligence is also known as AI, you might not even realize that you are using AI, things like the Amazon Alexa, Google dot, and Siri are all AI. Yes, AI is extremely normalized, but what you might not realize how bad for the environment AI is, it’s taking jobs from people who need those jobs to support themselves and their family, and AI does not follow privacy laws or guidelines.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is bad for the environment, just to generate a single image using AI consumes the same amount of energy as charging a phone to full power and a single AI generated text consumes energy at four or five times the size of a typical search engine request. Using too much energy is detrimental to the environment because it heavily relies on burning fossil fuels, coal, oil, and natural gas which releases massive amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2). This drives to climate change, global warming, air pollution, and habitat destruction. In order to build the giant warehouses that are filled with endless rows of computer servers that are continuously working to complete tasks using a lot of energy and electricity it makes the people who live around it electric bills go up.
AI is taking jobs from people who need those jobs to support themselves and/or their family. According to US bureau of labor statistics the unemployment rate in 2025 was 4.4% the total of people who were or still are unemployed is 7.5 million people in the US alone, AI will just make the unemployment rate even worse than it already is today. It is estimated that by 2030, at least 14% of global employees may need to change careers due to AI and robotics, roughly 23.5 % of U.S. companies have already replaced workers with AI tools.
AI does not follow privacy laws or guidelines. AI cannot follow laws for example the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability (HIPAA) it is a very well known federal law passed by Congress and signed in 1996, it establishes national standards to protect sensitive patient health information from being shown without consent, while also improving efficiency in the healthcare system. Having said that by using AI in the medical field you are risking your own health care information being told to anyone at anytime.