In early January 2025, amid the wildfires in Los Angeles, multiple posts about the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on climate change circulated widely.  Since LA is on fire and part of the south is frozen,
Vijay Gadepally, a senior staff member at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, leads a number of projects at the Lincoln Laboratory Supercomputing Center (LLSC) to make computing platforms, and the artificial intelligence systems that run on them,
Agency decay, Bond erosion, Climate change, Divided society threatens our future. We can turn them into opportunities.
Kate Dargan Marquis of the Moore Foundation discusses spurring research and development to keep up with the growing impact of wildfires.
AI and other transformative technologies give us more power to shape the future than ever before. But as the saying goes, "with great power comes great responsibility." The choices we make today will determine whether this era becomes a force for progress—or deepens divides.
President Biden, 82, has focused on U.S. foreign policy for decades. As he leaves office, he said his team's work on artificial intelligence and climate was key for his successor to follow through on.
As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to develop and demonstrate even more intelligent capabilities, the amount of energy, water, and other resources required to make the needed complex computations continues to rise.
Could AI even accelerate climate change? To be fair, this is the task set by their new Energy Council. Without access to cheap and reliable power, AI firms will not choose the UK to invest.
A new report has shown that businesses are struggling to keep up with the environmental impact of generative AI
The release of the National Adaptation and Resilience Planning Strategy comes as a series of wildfires continue to burn across the Los Angeles area.
Combining human efforts, nature, and AI in what Afeyan calls “polyintelligence” could solve some of the biggest challenges in the world, like climate change or cancer, he wrote. “We know ...
Energy startups have overtaken the makers of electric cars and batteries as the top global climate tech investment for the first time since 2020. They’ve done so as the growing demand for artificial intelligence has driven interest in technologies that can power data centers with less emissions.