Feeding AI, Eating Us

Jonathan Bean

doi:10.1145/3769849

Feeding AI, Eating Us

Jonathan Bean

School of Architecture

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In 2017, when the editors of Interactions suggested we rename this column “Consuming Tech,” the change appealed to me, because it reflected a focus on the effects of the humans involved in human-computer interaction. Making consumer devices requires material resources and energy. It takes rare earths to manufacture smartphones and antennas, not to mention the power and communications grids underpinning our networked world.

Original language	English (US)
Pages	20-21
Number of pages	2
Volume	32
No	6
Specialist publication	Interactions (N.Y.)
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3769849
State	Published - Nov 2025

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Human-Computer Interaction

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