Could AI Destroy the Planet, or Might AI Art and Gaming Save it?

Abstract

There are reasons to hope that AI can power data-driven insights that can help produce innovative solutions to the climate emergency. There are also real concerns about the climate cost of producing AI models in the first place and about issues such as environmental justice and power imbalances. MeshMinds Founder Kay Poh Gek Vasey asks will AI turn out to be a net negative or a net positive for the sustainability of life on the planet – and might AI art and gaming play a part in helping to save the world?