Climate Change
AI benefits outweigh the negatives on climate
AI can be a powerful ally in tackling numerous global challenges we face today. While critics often point out the energy consumption of AI systems, it’s important to consider this in the broader context of global carbon emissions. The Environmental Protection Agency states that major sources of these emissions include agriculture, which accounts for 24% […]
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The Worrying Sustainability of LLMs
In the past year, major tech conferences have had a buzzword overflow caused by the word “AI.” Realistically, what Google, Microsoft, and Meta mean when discussing AI is Large Language Model (LLM). These are ginormous systems of computing, costing hundreds of millions to set up and run in electricity costs, worker costs, and cooling water […]
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AI’s Paradox of Progress: A Worthwhile Cost for Climate Change Breakthroughs
Dubai, December 2023. During the UN’s climate summit (COP28), representatives of 198 countries agreed to transition away from fossil fuels – a world first. Moving from one of the largest petrostates to its second-largest consumer, the USA, we see the importance of this topic being underlined beyond the diplomatic world. In a video that’s somewhere […]
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Why AI carries an unfair stigma within the topic of climate change
Many articles today tend to focus on the downsides of AI, like its energy consumption, environmental impact, and the fear of it replacing humans. However, it’s time to shift this negative perspective and start paying more attention to and believing in the benefits and innovations that AI has to offer. In the field of climate […]
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Solving the Climate Crisis with AI Will Give Us a New ‘Oppenheimer Moment’
“Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds”, one of the most famous quotes that became well-known to most audiences last year through the movie Oppenheimer. The architect of the atomic bomb gained a different vision of his design after he gained insight into the incalculable damage it could do in which the world […]
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Why AI is Good News For Climate Change
Climate change is increasingly emerging as the issue of our time, but what role can AI play?
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