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”.
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.