Can AI Help Solve the Climate Crisis
Without deliberate action, AI risks exacerbating global inequalities. The new opportunities and challenges from AI will re-shape public policies, provide interactions and the role and functioning of the state.
A vision for the future
AI presents a unique opportunity to manage the climate crisis and accelerate the transition; in so doing it will drive innovation, growth, and resilience. Its ability to enhance, optimize, and reinvent systems, and accelerate discovery and innovation, can help align the global economy with net-zero goals. However, seizing this opportunity requires urgent, coordinated action from governments, businesses, and civil society working together and with markets.
Guided intentionally, AI can mitigate climate risks and build a more equitable and prosperous world. The challenge is no longer whether AI can contribute to the net-zero transition, but whether we will act decisively to harness its transformative potential with sufficient purpose and urgency.
Fo Sims Witherspoon, a leader at the AI research lab Google DeepMind “AI can be a transformational tool in our fight against climate change,” She says.
Using wind power as her case study, she explains how powerful neural networks can help us better predict Earth’s changing ecosystems and accelerate the breakthrough science needed to create a carbon-free energy supply.
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