In early January 2025, amid the wildfires in Los Angeles, multiple posts about the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on climate change circulated widely.  Since LA is on fire and part of the south is frozen,

Vijay Gadepally, a senior staff member at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, leads a number of projects at the Lincoln Laboratory Supercomputing Center (LLSC) to make computing platforms, and the artificial intelligence systems that run on them,

The ABCD of AI-issues — agency decay, bond erosion, climate change, divided society — threatens our future. We can turn them into opportunities.

Kate Dargan Marquis of the Moore Foundation discusses spurring research and development to keep up with the growing impact of wildfires.

AI’s strength lies in processing vast data, identifying patterns and making predictions with speed and accuracy. This makes AI a tool for solving complex global problems. It’s more than automation or convenience—it’s about amplifying human capabilities.

A new report has shown that businesses are struggling to keep up with the environmental impact of generative AI

Could AI even accelerate climate change? To be fair, this is the task set by their new Energy Council. Without access to cheap and reliable power, AI firms will not choose the UK to invest.

The release of the National Adaptation and Resilience Planning Strategy comes as a series of wildfires continue to burn across the Los Angeles area.

Each year, snake bites kill upwards of 100,000 people and permanently disable hundreds of thousands more, according to estimates from the World Health Organization. Promising new science, enabled by state-of-the-art technology, could help quell the threat.

Combining human efforts, nature, and AI in what Afeyan calls “polyintelligence” could solve some of the biggest challenges in the world, like climate change or cancer, he wrote. “We know ...

President Joe Biden has signed an ambitious executive order on artificial intelligence that seeks to ensure the infrastructure needed for advanced AI operations like data centers can be built quickly and at scale in the United States.

President Biden issued an executive order Tuesday to "accelerate the speed at which we build the next generation of AI infrastructure here in America."