AI for climate: from technological solutions to relational accountability
Sharon Stein · 2026
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Description
Artificial intelligence is sold as a climate savior, and Sharon Stein argues in a 2026 comment that the sales pitch repeats the thinking that caused the crisis. The comment names three habits: human exceptionalism, faith in technical fixes, and the assumption that one knowledge system speaks for everyone.
Tracing those habits, the author places AI-for-climate inside a web of extractive relations between people, species, and generations. The same tools could either deepen those relations or help repair them. The piece invites the field to judge its systems by relational accountability, whether they answer to the communities, species, and descendants who share the planet, rather than by emissions arithmetic alone. It is a short intervention with a long demand: change the relations, not just the models.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Sharon Stein |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 15 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |