3 days ago · By 2030, three transformative forces—climate change, artificial general intelligence (AGI) and quantum computing—will converge, reshaping the global business landscape in ways never seen before.

4 days ago · All of this means an uptick in emissions and deep concern among climate advocates who worry that the buildout of electricity generation for AI is about to lock the U.S. into a high-carbon future.

3 days ago · Countries have pledged commitment to the 2030 Sustainable Development Goal (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement to combat climate change. To maximize synergies between SDGs and climate actions (CAs), we ...

Jan 16, 2025 · The climate transition requires annual global investments of at least $4 trillion by 2030. At a time of slow growth, investment can boost productivity, create jobs and stimulate inclusive growth. AI is uniquely positioned to accelerate this transformation by scaling innovation and driving profound systemic change.

Jan 17, 2025 · Olivetti is senior author of a 2024 paper, “The Climate and Sustainability Implications of Generative AI,” co-authored by MIT colleagues in response to an Institute-wide call for papers that explore the transformative potential of generative AI, in both positive and negative directions for society. Demanding data centers

Jan 13, 2025 · Vijay Gadepally, a senior staff member at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, leads a number of projects at the Lincoln Laboratory Supercomputing Center (LLSC) to make computing platforms, and the artificial intelligence systems that run on them, more efficient. Here, Gadepally discusses the increasing use of generative AI in everyday tools, its hidden environmental impact, and some of the ways that ...

Aug 31, 2024 · Resilient infrastructure is fundamental for urban sustainability, especially in the face of challenges such as climate change and natural disasters. AGI’s capacity to analyze diverse datasets can help identify vulnerabilities within urban infrastructure and develop strategies to enhance resilience.

Mar 21, 2024 · AI researcher Yoshua Bengio provides his own thought experiment: “ [W]e may ask an AI to fix climate change and it may design a virus that decimates the human population because our instructions were not clear enough on what harm meant and humans are actually the main obstacle to fixing the climate crisis.”

Mar 7, 2023 · Using AI to factor in elements of climate change that are constantly evolving helps us make more informed predictions about changes in the environment, so that we can deploy mitigation efforts earlier.

Jun 9, 2022 · This Perspective presents a framework to assess how AI affects GHG emissions and proposes approaches to align the technology with climate change mitigation.