Climate Groups Urge Biden to Address AI's Impact on Climate Change

Advocacy groups highlight concerns about AI's role in spreading climate disinformation and its increasing energy use in an open letter to the president.

Climate and tech advocacy groups have written an open letter to President Biden expressing concerns about the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on climate change.
The groups argue that AI can amplify the spread of false information about climate change and that the energy requirements of large language models can increase carbon emissions.
The letter criticizes the Biden administration for not addressing these issues in a recent executive order on AI, which focused on safety standards and privacy-preserving training techniques.
The groups are calling for transparency rules around AI's energy use and its potential to spread disinformation.
They also want the government to require companies to report on the energy use and emissions of AI models throughout their lifecycle, and to study the effect of AI on the spread of climate disinformation.