Big Tech’s Claims That AI Can Help Fix the Climate Crisis Are “Greenwashing”

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Tech companies are conflating traditional artificial intelligence with generative AI when claiming the energy-hungry technology could help avert climate breakdown, according to a report. Most claims that AI can help avert climate breakdown refer to machine learning and not the energy-hungry chatbots and image generation […]