AI ‘WILL DO MORE TO BOOST FOSSIL FUEL PRODUCTION THAN GREEN ENERGY’

Study finds technology could boost recoverable oil and gas reserves by 5% and cut cost of deepwater projects by 10% AI-driven productivity gains enable more planet-heating pollution from fossil fuels than they avoid… Researchers modelled the technical potential for AI to boost clean power generation along with projections for how it can help produce coal, oil and gas.

Climate crisis | The Guardian reports that study finds technology could boost recoverable oil and gas reserves by 5% and cut cost of deepwater projects by 10% AI-driven productivity gains enable more planet-heating pollution from fossil fuels than they avoid…

The report adds: Researchers modelled the technical potential for AI to boost clean power generation along with projections for how it can help produce coal, oil and gas.

Across 64 scenarios, they found net yearly carbon pollution rose by 0.47-1.8 gigatonnes, or about 1-5% of the energy sector’s annual emissions.

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