The technology could be a crucial tool for scientists and policymakers.
Each type of artificial intelligence is designed for its own purpose, and many researchers are looking at how it could be used to both help us fight climate change and be better prepared to adapt to its effects.
. Priya Donti, co-founder and chair of an organization called Climate Change AI that promotes using AI to solve climate-related problems, tells Popular Science that her group is focused on helping people with backgrounds in AI, climate science, public policy and more come together to see how AI could help us in the climate fight. “When we think about AI, we should think about the fact that it’s a general purpose technology that can be used for many different kinds of applications,” Donti says. “These include applications that are good for climate action, such as optimizing electric power grids in order to foster the integration of renewable energy or collecting information about building footprints from satellite imagery in order to shape energy efficiency policies.” Climate Change AI runs educational events and workshops, but it also awards researchers with grants. The organization awardedin grants to 13 projects in April ranging from using AI to estimate ice volume in glaciers to using it to analyze power grids. Donti says AI is not some kind of “silver bullet” in the fight against climate change, but it’s an additional tool. One of the most exciting ways to use AI is to speed up scientific research that could lead to the development of even more tools for fighting climate change. Artificial intelligence systems could be used to give scientists a better idea of where to take their research so they don’t have to spend so much time trying out different ideas. “AI and machine learning have started to be used to actually analyze the outcomes of past scientific and engineering experiments and recommend from those which experiment is the most fruitful to try next,” Donti says.Instead of a scientist trying out dozens of possible next-generation battery chemistries, for example, a well-designed AI system could tell them that only three of those chemistries are actually worth pursuing. That could save them time and reduce the cost of research. A company calledAll of that said, AI isn’t exclusively a force for good. Donti says it can also be used in ways that harm the planet, such as oil companies using it to
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