alt Hacker NewsI think it's still worthwhile, though. AI, given its current trajectory, will be able to help immensely with science and engineering challenges. Degrowth isn't a recipe for sustainable reduction of CO2 emissions.
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Pumping even more CO2 into the air hoping the magic box spits out a solution to remove the CO2 from the air doesn't seem like a sustainable recipe either.
The big engineering challenges right now are electrifying everything (which means convincing people that it's the right thing to do and that gas powered vehicles belong to the trashbin of history, amongst others) and banning production of "virgin" plastic items, especially single use items (which also required a whole lot of convincing).
Most of that is convincing is done in the exact opposite direction with... you guessed it... AI.
This is broadly more PR puffery. We don’t need some magic AI model to tell us how to cut emissions. We just need to execute things we already know work.