India, Sept. 21 -- ChatGPT currently processes about 2.5 billion queries a day, up from 1 billion a day in December. Integrating AI into existing tools such as search engines could raise the electricity demands of these programs tenfold, a 2024 report by the International Energy Agency estimates. All this, in a world already battling a climate crisis and intensifying resource scarcities. And for what, researchers are asking. There are various areas of concern. Resource use is one. "Who gets to benefit from this technology and who gets left out - that's another," says Leona Verdadero, programme specialist with Unesco's Digital Policies and Digital Transformation division. "Consider this. About 32% of the world's population, or 2.6 billion pe...