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  "id": 12770,
  "url": "https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/496350/wildfire-heat-wave-climate-change-smoke-adaptation",
  "title": "The bitter lesson of climate change",
  "summary": "In 2019, the AI researcher Rich Sutton published a short essay called “The Bitter Lesson.” Seventy years of AI research, he argued, kept demonstrating the same thing: The most effective ways to train AI rely on raw, brute-force computing power — simply scaling up — rather than clever approaches built on human insight. It didn’t […]",
  "authors": "Bryan Walsh",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "environment",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-07-22T12:30:00.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-23T05:10:49.458Z",
  "source_slug": "x-vox-future-perfect",
  "source_name": "Vox Future Perfect",
  "source_homepage": "https://www.vox.com/future-perfect",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/12770",
  "original_url": "https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/496350/wildfire-heat-wave-climate-change-smoke-adaptation",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
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