Louis Anthony “Tony” Cox Jr, a Denver-based risk analyst and former Trump adviser who once reportedly claimed there is no proof that cleaning air saves lives, is developing an AI application to scan academic research for what he sees as the false conflation of correlation with causation.
Cox has described the project as an attempt to weed “propaganda” out of epidemiological research and perform “critical thinking at scale” in emails to industry researchers, which were obtained via Freedom of Information Act requests by the Energy and Policy Institute, a non-profit advocacy group, and exclusively reviewed by the Guardian.
A chemical industry lobbyist is attempting to use AI to amplify doubts about the dangers of pollutants
Submitted 3 weeks ago by Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Taking jobs from honest hardworking shills.
OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
His head looks like a wild fire just burned through.
three_trains_in_a_trenchcoat@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
I legit don't get stuff like this. Don't these mfs have kids? Don't their kids live on this same planet? Why do you want to make sure your kids get to choke on toxic dust?
bassomitron@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The rich people live in non-polluted areas.
three_trains_in_a_trenchcoat@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
I feel like that would be, and already is to some extent, both temporary and relative. Windblown microplastics don't really care if they end up in affluent areas.
solsangraal@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
you should really get rid of the assumption that the 1% have to deal with any of the problems they force on everyone else. rich people have their own separate existence. they live in rich-people-only neighborhoods. they park in rich-people-only parking lots. they go on vacation in rich-people-only parts of the world. their kids go to rich-people-only schools.
in effect, no, they do not live on the same planet. they live on rich-people-only planet, and one of their core purposes in life is to keep themselves there, while keeping everyone else out.
three_trains_in_a_trenchcoat@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
I mean, they might live a whole other cultural and social experience, but right now the world's ultra-wealthy are already planning on living out the rest of their years in underground bunker complexes. I really don't see how that's a better existence for them and their kids than making 3% less profit and giving just the tiniest shit about the planet.
Evil_Incarnate@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
“it won’t bother me, I’ll be dead before then” – boomers.