AI VS CLIMATE CHANGE

Dystopian narratives of malevolent AI and climate catastrophe abound. But what if one human-made monster could defeat another?

John Lorinc

Sitting at his desk in Montreal, BrainBox AI founder and CEO Sam Ramadori frequently refers to the sleek corporate high-rises visible through his office window in the heart of the city’s business district. Gradually filling up again with people after the long pandemic hiatus, these towers are not just workplaces, but complicated architectural machines. “If you look behind me, those towers have hundreds of rooms in them, each one of them kind of different,” he observes. “Some of them face the sun, some of them don’t, some of them are occupied or unoccupied.” These structures, moreover, are served by centralized heating and air-conditioning systems, which are fitted with hundreds of sensors, as well as software controllers designed to knit all the tech together, and typically run on naturalgas-powered boilers and…

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Corporate Knights (Digital) - 1 Issue, Summer 2023

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