The global pledge to use AI for climate good is a cruel joke

Murat Kurum (left), Turkey’s curate of Environment, Urbanisation and Climate Change; and Chris Bowen, Australia's curate for Climate Change and Energy, rise their hands unneurotic astatine the COP31 UN Climate Change Conference successful Antalya, Turkey, connected November 9th, 2026. | Photo: AFP via Getty Images

At this point, speechmaking done the latest splashy pledge to usage AI for the bully of the situation feels similar downing a nonalcoholic beer. Admittedly, I'm suspicious from the onset. How tin this beryllium good? But I emotion brew and our satellite capable to springiness it a whirl - and hey, wherefore not effort a small harm reduction?

Negotiators from much than 190 countries astir the satellite are successful Antalya, Turkey, this period for the yearly United Nations clime summit, called COP31 (the 31st "Conference of the Parties" that ratified the UN Framework Convention connected Climate Change). Turkey previewed its Antalya Artificial Intelligence Pledge up of the convening, inv …

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