• How AI is helping us tackle the climate crisis | Letter

    We need to keep improving the efficiency of AI development, but we can also harness it to help accelerate the green transition, writes Dr Will CavendishIt is reasonable to keep the energy use of AI systems under scrutiny, but so often the discussion of the topic feels overblown (AI drive brings Microsoft’s ‘green moonshot’ down to earth in west London, 29 June). The reason is that the emissions that are likely to be generated by powering AI are so much smaller than those create