AI’S POTENTIAL CLIMATE BENEFITS OUTWEIGHED BY ROLE IN BOOSTING FOSSIL FUELS, STUDY FINDS
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Modelling finds AI-driven productivity gains in coal, oil and gas enable more emissions than applications in renewables avoid AI-driven productivity gains enable more planet-heating pollution from fossil fuels than… 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 modelling finds AI-driven productivity gains in coal, oil and gas enable more emissions than applications in renewables avoid AI-driven productivity gains enable more planet-heating pollution from fossil fuels than…
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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