Widener Library, Harvard University (in full dress for the inauguration of the new university president. (Credit: Joseph Williams)

For months now, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and countless other leftists have been running around the country, telling anyone who will listen that AI (artificial intelligence) will kill us all if it isn’t stopped now.

AND YET…

Harvard is quietly preparing to spend millions of dollars to increase their AI computing ability.

So which is it?

This news is coming from the Harvard student newspaper the Harvard Crimson:

Harvard Weighs $25 Million Investment to Double University-Wide AI Computing Capacity

Harvard is considering putting roughly $25 million from a new centrally administered fund toward computing infrastructure to significantly boost the University’s computing capacity, according to two people familiar with the planning.

The money is penciled in to purchase a cluster of GPUs roughly the same size as the existing cluster at the Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence, according to Bernardo L. Sabatini ’91, who co-directs the institute. Sabatini estimated the investment could roughly double the University’s AI computing capacity.

While the Kempner cluster — roughly 1,100 GPUs — prioritizes access for its own affiliates through a tiered system, the new GPUs would be “a University resource for all,” Sabatini wrote. Decisions about which GPUs to purchase and how they are used would be made centrally rather than by Kempner, he added.

A second person, granted anonymity to discuss plans that are not public, confirmed a similar figure had been discussed. Both Sabatini and the person said the number was not finalized but had circulated in recent talks about how the University plans to allocate a recently announced $50 million investment in cutting-edge scientific research.

A University spokesperson declined to comment on the size or scope of the computing investment. The spokesperson referred The Crimson to a Sept. 28 announcement in the Harvard Gazette that said the money would support servers, computational capacity, cloud computing, and leading AI models.

If this is true, why isn’t Bernie Sanders leading a protest in front of Harvard University right now?

Where are all of the other leftists who have been saying that AI must be stopped and regulated?

Why is Harvard getting a pass? As if we didn’t know.

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