How AI Can Even the Climate Playing Field
The deep inequities that have long hampered international climate talks could soon be reduced substantially. With AI co-pilots, climate negotiators from low-income countries would be able to assess the implications of draft agreements for their own country’s laws, capacities, and interests in real time.
CAMBRIDGE – With the world on track to exceed 1.5° Celsius of warming in the next decade, we can expect climate hazards to intensify, driving millions more into famine, causing trillions of dollars in damage, and disproportionately harming those countries that contributed the least to the problem. Worse, a global biodiversity crisis is upon us: ecosystems are being eroded to the point of collapse, and species extinctions are accelerating at a frightening pace. Here, too, the poor are disproportionately affected.