It's just magical thinking, imagining some kind of heretofore unknown technology that will solve everything quickly and cheaply in the future.
The sad truth is we already have most of the technology needed to fight climate change. The technology could always use incremental improvement, sure, but the main challenge to be solved is not technological, it's political and economical. It's a question of actually adopting the solutions we already have.
The sad truth is that it’s already too late to keep the status quo.
In the next 20 years the living conditions will worsen considerably for the majority of humans.
What we can do now is make sure humanity as a whole has some chance of survival.
The only thing I can see doing that is cheap fusion power, and that doesn’t seem like something that AI can help much with, at least not the uses I’ve seen it put to. It doesn’t seem great at those types of problems, at least LLM doesn’t seem to be.
The sad truth is we already have most of the technology needed to fight climate change. The technology could always use incremental improvement, sure, but the main challenge to be solved is not technological, it's political and economical. It's a question of actually adopting the solutions we already have.