How does AI relate to climate change? Does it offer challenges or solutions? We look into these questions from a standpoint of race, geography, social status and mental distance to the issue.
AI methods can be used to reduce the psychological distance to climate impacts in groups who are not actively experiencing the negative effects of climate change in their daily life.
A benefit of using AI methods in climate change solutions is that the potential for remote collection of data and analysis in the cloud allows for far-reaching geographic applications of solutions.
The relationship between climate change and social inequalities is a vicious cycle. Initial inequality causes disproportionate disadvantage from the effects of climate change to certain groups, resulting in further inequality.