Tepperspectives

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Recycling: The Key to Sustainable Solar Energy

A circular supply chain is crucial for the long-term sustainability of solar energy. Recycling valuable materials from retired solar panels reduces waste and stabilizes costs, while policies that encourage circularity and enhanced recycling technologies and strengthens the industry.

A Primer on Tariffs

Tariffs are taxes on imported goods that aim to protect domestic industries but often come at a high cost to consumers by increasing prices and potentially harming overall economic growth.

TikTok: What’s Next for Influencers?

TikTok could be banned by April 4, 2025 in the United States. What would this mean for influencers?

Generative AI and Sustainability: Balancing Innovation With Responsibility

Solutions to the AI Energy Demand

Generative AI’s operational needs consume massive amounts of energy and emit huge amounts of carbon into the atmosphere. To mitigate the environmental impact and lower costs, businesses must adopt sustainable practices like clean energy, hardware efficiency, and model optimization to continue innovation.

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Understanding GDP and Economic Policy

The United States government has proposed to recalculate the GDP by removing government spending from the equation. What would this mean?

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The Jobs AI Can Do — and Those It Shouldn’t

Generative AI's impact on work depends not just on what it can do, but also on factors like task complexity, frequency, and the cost of failure, which determine its practical and economic viability for automation in specific occupations.

Are Artificial Moral Agents the Future of Ethical AI?

Artificial moral agents, or AMA, are artificial intelligence (AI) agents (AI systems created for specific roles or tasks) that theoretically aid decision-making by considering a scenario’s moral or ethical aspects and offering an analysis or conclusion.