Technological development is a crucial part of the climate challenge. Breakthroughs in artificial intelligence (AI) over the past few years, including deep learning and generative AI, are creating completely new opportunities for tackling the climate issue. In some cases, it may even help us discover and understand other living species better. But AI also creates new sustainability problems and risks. Can artificial intelligence really help us accelerate the climate transition? What impact can we expect on people, nature and the climate within the next ten years? And why should we view digitisation as a “mine” rather than a “cloud””?
Victor Galaz is an author, Associate Professor of Political Science and researcher at the Stockholm Resilience Centre (Stockholm University) and the Beijer Institute for Ecological Economics (Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences). This lecture is based on his upcoming book Dark Machines – how artificial intelligence and automation is changing our living planet, which will be published by Routledge later this year.
Organiser: Stockholm University
