Environment

AI data center e-waste could fill 23 million shipping containers by 2050: A new report warns that e-waste from the AI boom has been vastly underestimated and could generate enough trash to fill 23 million shipping containers by 2050. This estimate is significantly higher than previous studies on AI's electronic waste footprint.

Environment • The Verge AI

Researchers introduce Blindspot benchmark to evaluate tool-using AI agent safety: Researchers have introduced Blindspot, a benchmark designed to evaluate the safety and refusal calibration of long-horizon, tool-using AI agents. The benchmark assesses complete user-agent-environment trajectories through adaptive adversarial interactions and stateful tool execution.

AI safety • arXiv