AI is dominating the conversation at Climate Week

New York Climate Week has an unexpected protagonist this year, and it's not a breakthrough in fusion or a miracle carbon-sucking machine—it's artificial intelligence. As world leaders, investors, and advocates collide in Manhattan for the UN General Assembly, the unavoidable topic at every panel and fancy dinner is the very technology that exists in a quantum superposition of savior and destroyer. AI could model our way out of the crisis, optimize every watt of renewable energy, and discover materials we haven't dreamed of—or it could guzzle the grid into oblivion with its insatiable hunger for compute. The universe has a dark sense of humor, and this year it's laughing from inside