Study Questions Claims AI Will Solve the Climate Crisis

Study questions claims AI will solve the climate crisis

: From AI conflation to thin evidence, a new report calls many climate claims greenwashing

Claims That AI Can Help Fix Climate Dismissed As Greenwashing

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: Tech companies are conflating traditional artificial intelligence with generative AI when claiming the energy-hungry technology could help avert climate breakdown, according to a report. Most claims that AI can help avert climate breakdown refer to machine learning and not the energy-hungry chatbots and image generation tools driving the sector's explosive growth of gas-guzzling datacenters,…