The research, commissioned by nonprofits including Beyond Fossil Fuels and Climate Action Against Disinformation, did not find a single example where popular tools such as Google’s Gemini or Microsoft’s Copilot were leading to a “material, verifiable, and substantial” reduction in planet-heating emissions.
Ketan Joshi, an energy analyst and author of the report, said the industry’s tactics were “diversionary” and relied on tried and tested methods that amount to “greenwashing”.
We already know the solution to climate change, we just aren’t willing to accept it. Having an AI tell us the solution won’t change anything. If they expect the AI to have a solution within this system that only works with infinite growth, good luck with that. Even if AI is all that they want it to be, it isn’t magic, it can’t figure out solutions that simply don’t exist.
But as it stands AI is mostly marketing hype and nowhere near capable of the things they claim.
Yeah, this is the thing I’ve never understood about the “AI will fix climate change” BS. Like, what, the AI owned by billionaires is gonna say “Step one, get rid of capitalism” and the billionaires are gonna be like “Well if the AI said it…”?
Literally all it can do is tell us what we already know.
Any actual unbiased AI would look at the current situation and say “shut it all down”.
I believe that it did, before they made it “better”.
I’m sure there is a use-case for AI/Machine Learning in combating climate change, I am also sure that building 1000 mega polluting data-centers filled with LLM’s is the opposite of fixing climate.
We have all the technology we need to fix climate change. It’s just a matter of political will.
Some people really want technology to be the solution to all our problems. And I’m a tech enthusiast myself. But some things are not worth it.
Just a few minutes ago I read a comment in a thread about climate change and AI, saying we “just” had to run the datacenters on solar energy.
sigh palmface
Reminds me of this:
