I don't think AI has to be entirely useless in battling climate change. Dean has made other comments on AI and climate change: https://venturebeat.com/2019/12/

I don't think AI has to be entirely useless in battling climate change. Dean has made other comments on AI and climate change: https://venturebeat.com/2019/12/16/ai-experts-urge-machine-learning-researchers-to-tackle-climate-change/ https://venturebeat.com/2019/12/16/ai-experts-urge-machine-l... "Dean said the company is thinking of including more information in Google search results to give users a predicted carbon output for choices they make, like ordering a certain product." An AI system that predicts carbon output for consumer choices and delivers that to consumers could be useful in battling climate change, even if only in a small way.