The Hidden Connection: How AI Use Affects Polar Bears Every time we use artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT or generate AI images, (1...

The Hidden Connection: How AI Use Affects Polar Bears

Every time we use artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT or generate AI images, (18) __________. The connection lies in the energy-intensive data centers required to train and run AI systems around the world. These massive facilities consume enormous amounts of electricity to power the servers that run AI models, and this energy demand (19) __________, particularly polar bears.

The numbers are alarming. According to research from MIT and Cornell University, AI data centers could produce between 24 and 44 million metric tons of carbon dioxide annually by 2030, (20) __________. Furthermore, a Goldman Sachs analysis forecasts that data centers will drive a sharp rise in electricity demand, (21) __________. Currently, data centers account for 4.4% of all energy consumption in the United States, and the carbon intensity of electricity used by these facilities is 48% higher than the national average because they require constant power around the clock and cannot rely solely on renewable sources like solar or wind.

This massive carbon footprint from AI infrastructure creates a direct link between our digital activities and Arctic climate change. As global temperatures rise due to increased greenhouse gas emissions from sources including AI data centers, Arctic sea ice continues to shrink at an unprecedented rate. Polar bears depend entirely on sea ice for hunting seals, their primary food source. Studies show that ice-free periods in regions like Hudson Bay now last three to four weeks longer than in the 1980s, pushing polar bears beyond their survival limits. (22) __________.

[Adapted from MIT Technology Review]

Question 18: 

A. then our computer screens are affected by growing environmental problems that we must contribute to

B. the fact that this environmental problem is growing reaches far beyond our computer screens

C. which further exacerbate a broad ecological crisis extending well past the confines of computer screens

D. we contribute to a growing environmental problem that reaches far beyond our computer screens

Question 19: 

A. accelerating climate change to threaten Arctic wildlife in directly different ways

B. is accelerating climate change in ways that directly threaten Arctic wildlife

C. will accelerate the climate change which is threatened by Arctic wildlife directly

D. has accelerated climate change to be threatening the Arctic wildlife in ways

Question 20: 

A. a large proportion of which will likely be met by burning fossil fuels

B. which fossil fuels will likely be burnt in a large proportion to be meeting

C. that a large proportion of fossil fuels will meet by likely being burnt

D. in order that burning fossil fuels will likely meet a large proportion of it

Question 21: 

A. that adding 5 to 10 million cars to American roads is an equivalent demand

B. the equivalent of adding 5 to 10 million cars to American roads is driven

C. added 5 to 10 million cars to American roads as an equivalent sharp rise

D. equivalent to adding 5 to 10 million cars to American roads

Question 22: 

A. According to data, 21% of adult males and 63% of females with cubs facing long ice-free periods are completely unlikely to survive this extensive scientific research on Arctic starvation.

B. Research indicates that after 180 days without sea ice, 21% of adult male polar bears and 63% of females with cubs are unlikely to survive due to starvation

C. The probability of surviving starvation is historically unlikely for 21% of adult males and 63% of females with cubs unless the ice-free duration stays within traditional 180-day limits.

D. Evidence suggests that 21% of adult male polar bears and 63% of females with cubs monitoring these ice-free regions are highly unlikely to research their own starvation after 180 days