Five Things AI: Climate Tech, Grid, Manipulation, Flops, LLMjacking

Christmas and AI. What a match!

Heya and welcome back to Five Things AI!

Let’s kick off the year with a little less euphoric outlook on the state of AI than usual.

How will the datacenters get the power necessary to run all the GPU necessary for AI? What will this mean for our climate? And how can we push the grid into the future? Let’s also talk about friendly sounding agents that are just out there to manipulate you into revealing secrets and let’s have a look at LLMjacking, which sounds like a really scary practice.

And just to cheer you up, let’s also take a look at the biggest fails in AI from last year. Well, technological progress doesn’t proceed on a linear scale, I guess.

Enjoy the first Five Things AI of 2025!