The AI Gambit — Leveraging Artificial Intelligence to Combat Climate Change: Opportunities, Challenges, and Recommendations

In this article we analyse the role that artificial intelligence (AI) could play, and is playing, to combat global climate change. We identify two crucial opportunities AI offers in domain: it can help improve expand current understanding of change, contribute combatting crisis effectively. However, development also raises sets problems when considering change: possible exacerbation social ethical challenges already associated with AI, contribution change greenhouse gases emitted by training data computation-intensive systems. assess carbon footprint research, factors influence AI’s gas (GHG) emissions domain. find research may be significant highlight need for more evidence concerning trade-off between GHG generated energy resource efficiency gains offer. light our analysis, argue leveraging offered whilst limiting its risks a gambit which requires responsive, evidence-based, effective governance become winning strategy. conclude identifying European Union as being especially well-placed play leading policy response provide 13 recommendations are designed harness while reducing impact on environment.