Artificial Intelligence
AI can help pilots minimize climate-warming aircraft contrails, Google study finds
Tests carried out by Google, American Airlines and Breakthrough Energy suggest pilots can steer clear of routes that create climate-warming contrails. Read More
How Google is turning to AI to help address the climate crisis
The company is grappling with the tradeoff between creating artificial intelligence services to help with sustainability and the large amounts of energy and water they need. Read More
The future of sustainability: 4 fast-emerging trends
What's coming next for sustainability: Mining, oceans, artificial intelligence and justice. Read More
Apocalypse or ally? Managing AI to advance sustainability
Capturing the benefits and minimizing the risks of artificial intelligence will require practical measures that build confidence and trust. Read More
The profound promise of AI for the power sector
To transform the power sector, we need more and better data across grid and distributed devices. Read More
Is generative AI bad for the environment?
What you need to know about the carbon footprint of ChatGPT and its cousins, from a computer scientist. Read More
Google extends AI-enabled Flood Hub to 80 countries
App provides flood data and forecasts up to seven days in advance to regions where more than 460 million people are exposed to severe flood risk. Read More
How will AI shape the future of clean energy?
I posed the question to experts at the foremost utility trade conference — DistribuTECH. Read More
My exclusive interview with ChatGPT about AI, climate tech and sustainability
Can artificial intelligence conduct an informed conversation about the broad and complex technologies under the climate tech umbrella? Let's let it speak for itself. Read More
Why AI is vital in the race to meet the SDGs
Artificial intelligence can accelerate progress of the Sustainable Development Goals and help us get back on track to reaching them by 2030, but the devil's in the ethics details. Read More