What also comes into play is how engineers are rewarded, evaluated, and
assessed. “Commitment to sustainability is typically not included on
what they must put into the product, so they aren’t motivated, except by
their own internal ethics and the company’s ethics towards that. It’s
the age-old ethics versus dollars in business, and in general we know
who wins that. It’s a huge issue. Maybe we should be teaching ethics in
engineering in school, because they’re not going to stop making big,
powerful LLMs and training on these huge data centers,”