Research Network Digi-Oek.ch<p>Climate promises of AI a lot like carbon offsets</p><p>"... we’ve seen again and again that [...] often <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/exaggerate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>exaggerate</span></a> the <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>climate</span></a> benefits, doing little to alter the balance of what’s going into or coming out of the <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/atmosphere" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>atmosphere</span></a>."</p><p>"... big gap between how <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> could be used and how it will be used ..."</p><p>"... we ... can’t count on AI to drive down <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/emission" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>emission</span></a>|s more than it drives them up ... time frame now demanded by the dangers of climate change."</p><p><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/04/10/1114912/why-the-climate-promises-of-ai-sound-a-lot-like-carbon-offsets/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">technologyreview.com/2025/04/1</span><span class="invisible">0/1114912/why-the-climate-promises-of-ai-sound-a-lot-like-carbon-offsets/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/climatechange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>climatechange</span></a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/carbonoffset" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>carbonoffset</span></a></p>