By https://www.techradar.com/author/keumars-afifi-sabet
Publication Date: 2026-10-25 23:00:00
As the AI buildout continues and models improve from generation to generation, fears persist over how useful this technology will actually be in practice and whether AI will reach a ceiling before it makes a meaningful impact.
Although roles and responsibilities, and jobs, are being replaced in the name of AI, does that mean it’s changing things for the better?
“We as a global community have to get to a point where we’re using this to do something useful… Otherwise, I don’t think this makes much sense… In fact, I’ll say we’ll quickly lose even the social permission to actually take something like energy, which is a scarce resource, and use it to generate these tokens.”
Energy scarcity
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella was speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2026 about the impact of AI on the global economy and the…
