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Whistleblower exposes how AI fuels Big Oil growth
"We realized we were basically working for an oil company," said Holly Alpine, a former Microsoft employee who quit her dream job on the company's sustainability team when she realized the company, like most tech companies, is helping fossil fuel companies extract more oil and gas.
US President Donald Trump has gutted climate rules in an effort to boost fossil fuel production and is implementing a sweeping AI policy to "maintain unquestioned and unchallenged global technological dominance." The same year, Cenovus joined forces with IBM to implement a company-wide tech platform designed to improve its efficiency and ensure the company could adopt more complex AI systems in the future. Many of the projects were helping oil and gas companiesextract fossil fuels more cheaply by making their operations more efficient, or by accessing previously inaccessible deposits — what Alpine calls "enabled emissions."
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