According to the Product Environmental Report published by Apple in September 2021, an iPhone 13 emits a total of 64kg CO2 (that is total lifecycle, from resource extraction to destruction).

According to Sustainability by Numbers, "[s]ome of our best estimates are that one query emits around 2 to 3 grams of CO2. That includes the amortised emissions associated with training."

That means 32,000 queries equal one iPhone. If you keep a phone three years, that's 29 queries a day for AI to be equivalent.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: the only meaningful critiques of AI are that

1. it's making us stupider 2. it's taking the meaningful parts of being alive away from the people (i.e., replacing human artistic expression with machine "artistic" expression)