AI-driven productivity gains enable more CO₂ emissions than they avoid in a global energy–economy model

This research article can help you to understand an important and understated way in which AI threatens to exacerbate climate change - by cutting fossil fuel production costs, increasing what is commercially viable to extract and produce, and inducing additional demand. The research explains that when AI is adopted equally across the fossil fuel and renewable energy sectors, the additional productivity it provides the fossil fuel industry (and the related “enabled emissions”) undermines any emissions that its clean energy applications will help avoid. This resource will be especially beneficial to sustainability professionals.