Tim DraperFounder and Managing Partne, Draper Associate · I back the ideas that look crazy first

The planet-saving AI⁉️

2 Mar 2026 · 1 min

Watch on YouTube

0:43

Dr. Rory Brenner of Perforated AI argues that current AI systems consume dangerous amounts of energy. He proposes adding artificial dendrites, structures inspired by biological neurons, to make AI smarter while using far less power. The result could handle routine work and let humans focus on creative tasks.

Chapters

We are absolutely burning the planet down with the insane energy requirements of all of these systems. Insects and children can interact with the world perfectly that the best AI in the world couldn't do. I'm Dr. Rory Brenner, the founder of Perforated AI, and we're augmenting artificial neural networks with artificial dendrites to make AI more intelligent and greener. The day they taught us about dendrites, I was just like, holy crap. We should be able to use AI to make the world a better place, and hopefully we can, you know, have AI do the things that people don't want to do so that the humans can be doing the more fun, creative, interesting kind of jobs, you can end up having equal intelligence with significantly smaller and greener architectures.