Can AI save the planet?

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4.5 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

When it comes to solving the climate crisis, artificial intelligence can be a powerful tool, but it comes with some significant risks. Marketplace’s AI reporter Matt Levin talks with Priya Donti, Assistant Professor at MIT and co-founder Climate Change AI about the promises and perils of AI.

- WATCH: Can AI Help Solve the Climate Crisis? – TED

- READ: How Big Tech AI models nailed forecast for Hurricane Lee a week in advance – The Washington Post

- CHECK OUT: Climate Change AI

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0:00.0	Lately, lots of us are upset about capitalism.
0:04.8	We cannot separate capitalism from racism.
0:08.4	Market capitalism is not a religion.
0:11.4	You'd have to be a fool to worship it.
0:13.3	I am so sick of living in a capitalist society.
0:16.3	Blame capitalism, a series airing Fridays in September
0:20.1	on Today Explained.
0:22.1	Everyone's talking about capitalism
0:25.8	but they all seem like they're bad.
0:34.5	Hey, everybody.
0:35.5	I'm Amy Scott, host of How We Survive.
0:38.2	And this is the final installment of burning questions.
0:41.9	For now, it's been so fun making this series.
0:44.8	And we really hope you've enjoyed it.
0:46.9	If you have a burning question about the climate crisis
0:49.6	you'd like us to answer.
0:50.8	You can send us a note at survive at marketplace.org.
0:55.3	We'll be back in just a few short weeks with a brand new season
0:58.6	of How We Survive.
1:00.0	It's all about the water crisis in the West
1:02.8	and the ripple effects it'll have across the country.
1:05.5	So stay tuned for that.
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