AI can shine digital sunlight on to company greenwashing

If you say the word "green activist" to a corporate executive, Greta Thunberg may spring to mind -- and provoke fear. Today, however, there is another force to watch: robots. Consider an artificial intelligence-enabled platform called "ClimateBert". This was recently created by Swiss and German academics to parse the accounts of 800 businesses backing the "task force for climate related financial disclosure", principles pioneered by Mark Carney, former Bank of England governor. It sounds (and is) geeky.