This week, our host Lauren Goode, along with two of our senior writers, Kate Knibbs and Paresh Dave, dive into the show's inbox to answer listeners' questions. We look into a range of queries--from how AI is shaping the film industry to brainstorming how the Jony Ive and Open AI's collaboration could look like. Mentioned in this episode: This Viral AI Chatbot Will Lie and Say It's Human by Lauren Goode and Tom Simonite A Political Battle Is Brewing Over Data Centers by Molly Taft You can always listen to this week's podcast through the audio player on this page, but if you want to subscribe for free to get every episode, here's how: If you're on an iPhone or iPad, open the app called Podcasts, or just tap this link. Note: This is an automated transcript, which may contain errors. Lauren Goode: This is WIRED's Uncanny Valley, a show about the people power and influence of Silicon Valley.

AI data centers are so hot right now. Each time generative AI services churn through their large language models to make a chatbot answer one of your questions, it takes a great deal of processing power to sift through all that data. Doing so can use massive amounts of energy, which means the proliferation of AI is raising questions about how sustainable this tech actually is and how it affects the ecosystems around it. Some companies think they have a solution: running those data centers underwater, where they can use the surrounding seawater to cool and better control the temperature of the hard working GPUs inside. But it turns out just plopping something into the ocean isn't always a foolproof plan for reducing its environmental impact.