Artificial Intelligence, Sustainability and Climate Change
Résumé
This paper presents a short introduction to the AI4S workshop aiming in painting a “big picture” of various interrelated aspects of Sustainability and Climate Change. The connections between energy, agriculture, water and technology, usually addressed separately, are vital to properly address the given challenges.The concern about the sustainability and climate change weakly considers in the debates the pollution induced by technology and innovation. While technology produces twofold effect – benefits and waste, the capacity of available technology and in particular Artificial Intelligence for related complex problems solving is still underexplored.The knowledge-based AI and connectionist approaches and techniques combined with adequate thinking may innovate the way of managing industry, administration and in other contexts and improve the effectiveness of efforts in sustaining the Planet. Knowledge-based AI help improving the explanation of the results got from Deep learning.After the introduction aiming in connecting the “dots” between AI, sustainability and Climate actions, this paper presents shortly some contribution of AI to Climate actions and comments the conditions for minimizing the footprint.