AI has changed the climate conversation. I had no doubt about that as I sat down onstage yesterday, under the lights at The Nest Campus, the Climate Week NYC bonanza at the North Javits Center. It feels a bit like a mini-climate-focused CES, complete with EVs inside the conference center. I was talking to Dawn
Salt harvesters in Gujarat, India, often have to work through extreme heatwaves. The first time I began to understand climate loss as a mental-health issue was not while reading a report or attending a summit. It was while listening to people describe what they feared losing. While working with coastal communities in Kenya, I heard
UNITED NATIONS — Under a global cloud of wars and bitter divisions, world leaders meet at the United Nations this week facing new fears that runaway artificial intelligence could threaten humanity even as climate shocks and escalating prices are already making life much tougher for hundreds of millions of people. The annual high-level gathering at
Marcene Mitchell is the Senior Vice President of Climate Change at WWF. Marcene previously served as the Global Head of Climate Strategy and Business Development at the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector arm of the World Bank. In this role at IFC and in previous positions, Marcene’s expertise has been on creating new
On the morning of June 9th, Laura Lin was working from her home in Lanesville, a rural southern Indiana town about 15 miles from the Kentucky border. She was on a Zoom call, unaware that the heavy rain outside was beginning to flood her yard. “I look over to where the barn is over there,
Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue questioned the focus on a former Anthropic researcher who said AI workers privately fear the technology could kill all humans. “Sorry, but asking Jacob about AI extinction risk is like asking your AC guy about climate change,” Delangue wrote on X on Friday. Delangue said that Jacob Coxon, the former
