artificial intelligence
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Bridging the Gap: How AI Can Help—or Hinder—the SDGs
The issue is no longer whether AI matters for sustainable development, but how to apply it in ways that decrease costs, expand access, improve decision-making and avoid further deepening inequality.
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AI and Climate Justice: Balancing Risk With Opportunity
As AI expands its global reach, how can we ensure its just and inclusive use when applied to climate science?
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How AI Is Revolutionizing the Recycling Industry
Modern waste facilities are incorporating AI into their systems, using robots guided by AI vision systems and machine learning algorithms, high resolution cameras, hyperspectral imaging, near-infrared sensors and predictive analytics.
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Rethinking Energy Systems in the Age of AI
To view data centers as mainly energy-intensive off-takers misses their potential as digital and energy infrastructure multipliers.
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Highlights: ‘From Chaos to Code: How AI Can Tame the Climate Crisis’
Part of the inaugural Columbia AI Summit, this session addressed how AI is emerging as a powerful tool in climate science, disaster preparedness, and building resilience across interconnected systems.
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Can AI Help Save Our Planet?
The world’s policy leaders and climate scientists are united: We are in a decisive decade.
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Combating Microplastics With AI Real-Time Monitoring
Columbia Climate School and Columbia Engineering win a grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to develop AI for sustainable waterways and ocean health.
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How Ecology Could Inspire Better Artificial Intelligence, and Vice Versa
Two complex fields of human endeavor may have a lot to learn from each other.
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Improving Market Design for Energy Storage
A new study finds that electricity market design is the key to trade-offs between more affordable energy and lower carbon emissions.
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