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What Can Artificial Intelligence Really Do to Fight Climate Change?
“AI can be a really powerful support and accelerator for many different climate change-related applications,” says MIT professor Priya Donti on this week’s Zero.
Artificial intelligence can make it easier to optimize power grids, prepare for natural disasters and maximize crop output.
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Depending on who you ask, AI is either going to save the world or end it.
The technology’s capacity for data-crunching and problem-saving can help predict weather events, making it easier to optimize power grids, prepare for natural disasters and maximize crop output. But artificial intelligence is also energy intensive — and easy to apply to ethically questionable ends.