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Carbon Emissions: Artificial Intelligence

Asked by Mr Luke ChartersLabourDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled Answered 1 August 2024UIN 1872

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will make an assessment of the effectiveness of artificial intelligence for reducing emissions.

Answered by Kerry McCarthy

The Department is funding the “Artificial Intelligence for Decarbonisation's Virtual Centre of Excellence” (ADViCE), run by consortium composed of the Alan Turing Centre, the Energy Catapult and the Digital Catapult, to make an assessment into how AI can be used to achieve our net zero goals. They have produced two reports which can be downloaded here: https://www.turing.ac.uk/research/research-projects/advice.

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