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Generative AI’s Other Environmental Problem

October 14, 2025 by Liza Williams Artificial Intelligence Technology

An overreliance on generative AI may threaten our collective potential to meaningfully address environmental problems by potentially slowing scientific progress and innovation, reducing the efficacy of our collaboration, and weakening support for environmental protection.