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Jevons paradox debate resurfaces around AI

Original: Interesting read: the Jevons paradox. Very applicable to the current AI developments… https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jev

Commenters are revisiting the Jevons paradox, the 19th-century economics observation that making a resource cheaper and more efficient increases its total consumption, and arguing it maps neatly onto artificial intelligence. The claim: as AI makes computing and labour cheaper, demand may surge rather than fall, driving far greater overall resource use instead of savings.

Why now: Rapid growth in AI adoption and compute demand has revived interest in whether efficiency gains actually reduce consumption.

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