Unleashing AI’s potential: how it can help us adapt to climate change | FT Climate Capital

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Published 2023-06-27
AI has the potential to be a key tool in the fight against climate change and make meaningful change in this critical moment.

Hamid Maher, Managing Director & Partner at BCG, explains the importance of AI when it comes to tackling climate change, how it can be used to forecast both long-term and immediate hazards, and in turn help decision makers take action.

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All Comments (11)
  • @Unazaki
    So basically, enhanced data analytics and predictive algorithms. Thats quite a stretch to brand something like this as "AI" no?
  • @silviashefa4097
    As the climate heads into greater extremes globally, how can we best deal with future climate crises? The short answer is that we cannot deal with them unless we take care of nature's inner balance. We live in a tightly-closed and interdependent system in which everything boomerangs back to us. While living in such a system, we need to reconsider what we want and think, and how we treat each other, because our human connections are the primary influence on how nature responds to us. It is common to think that climate is dependent on factors outside of us—whether it be balances between heat and cold in the environment, or the effects of various kinds of pollution we emit—because we lack a complete picture of how our attitudes to each other bring about the strongest responses from nature toward us. No creature distorts nature the way that we people do. And it is not simply a matter of switching to renewable energy sources, electric cars and the like; it is a matter of how we relate to each other. If we truly wish to witness more balance throughout nature and not have to deal with all kinds of cold waves and other natural disasters, then similarly to how we have electricity, water and gas meters in our homes, we should also have meters that count how much evil we emit into the world from our negative attitudes to each other. What I mean is that if we could feel the extent to which we emit negative forces into the world, which negatively ricochet back to us, then we would wish to change this negative driver within us. We would want to switch it to a drive that makes our human connections positive, and which harmonizes us with nature. In simple terms, when we get up in the morning, we should first and foremost consider what we need to do in order for all people to have it good. Developing such an attitude is not so simple, yet we will need to seriously work on it as we head into the future. A life of increasing blows from nature or a life of peace and harmony depends on the extent to which we impact a shift in our attitudes to each other—from negative to positive.
  • @danielluiz7771
    this content is related to leaders. I ask focus to the video. the criticism from the comments is because it's not for them.
  • @cpm4317
    I have another one: "land of hope and glory, mother of the free..."
  • @krac3x438
    you know what can help combat climate change? taxes, you know the thing that everyone pays expect the richest people on the planet
  • It was not me, it was A.I. Who told me how to slice the pie And give to Theys Them's Equity Equalling Them Equallling Me.
  • @cpm4317
    Plan of action: escape to europe trying to get a "boat" that does not think nor will be "pushed back". It will be warmer in europe as well but since we give a sh... about emissions for quite a while, we will still be able to offer a better place to live&prosper than in certain other parts of the world. Note, you may not want to settle in spain or italy or just temporarily becauss climate change seems to be catching up with them as well....
  • @AbuSous2000PR
    it all depends on the data you will use to train AI models.. for instance.. if u feed AI garbage in...u will get more garbage out
  • @breadman7733
    This buzzwordy nonsense is beneath you, FT; even for a sponsored post