Green by Design? Investigating the Energy and Carbon Footprint of Chia Network

This feed includes multiple AI and blockchain analyses with direct safety, governance, and societal-harm implications. Key findings: (1) Chia Network’s PoST design produces far larger operational and embodied carbon emissions than claimed (estimated ~0.88 MtCO2/year, ~18x the claim), undermining its “green” positioning; (2) an audit of Claude Opus 4.6 reveals systematic geographic knowledge gaps and higher fabrication rates for Global North queries — a detectable vulnerability an adversary could exploit to evade AI control monitors; (3) a proposal to reconceptualize AI alignment as ‘institu- t