AI's Double-Edged Sword: Both Helper and Hinderer for Air Quality and Climate Action
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AI has potential to both help and harm efforts to monitor air quality and address climate change. It can turbocharge climate disinformation but also help create a greener world.
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Air quality monitoring sector already uses AI to process large volumes of data generated by sensors. It helps speed up analysis.
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AI tools from company Airly aim to boost productivity of air quality consultants by rapidly gathering and analyzing planning data.
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Calculating continuous air pollution levels with many variables is complex, suited for AI. It can also help predict future air quality.
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But some experts argue AI not well suited for simple air quality monitoring tasks with threshold based alerts. Other automation algorithms work as well.