Impact of artificial intelligence: risks and opportunities for the environment

On November 30th 2022, the Californian company OpenAI launched its chatbot ChatGPT. Free and accessible to all, this tool made citizens, the media and decision-makers aware that the democratisation of generative artificial intelligence (AI) was going to become unavoidable and experience exponential development worldwide.
In 2023, the 28th Conference of the Parties on Climate Change (COP 28) in Dubai enshrined AI systems as major tools in the fight against climate change. Today, AI is helping to reduce our environmental footprint through systems created specifically for their ecological usefulness - such as measuring air quality and predicting the concentration of fine particles several hours in advance - but also indirectly by improving the energy efficiency of all human activities: controlling road traffic flows, heating buildings, managing waste, etc.