AI Will Be A Vital Tool In Making The Global Economy More Sustainable And Efficient - PwC

Artificial intelligence can help to bring together the twin megatrends of digitalization and decarbonisation. There has been a lot of talk about how artificial intelligence (AI) will affect various aspects of our lives, but little has been said to date about how the technology can help to make the world more sustainable. A new report from the consultancy PwC, commissioned by software giant Microsoft, looks at how the twin, powerfully disruptive megatrends of digitization and decarbonisation could come together in future and it concludes that AI could make a significant dent in global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. PwC defines AI as "a collective term for technologies that can sense their environment, think, learn, and take action in response to what they're sensing and their objectives". Applications can range from automation of routine tasks to augmenting human decision-making and beyond to automation and discovery – huge amounts of data to spot, and act on patterns, which are beyond our current capabilities.