How Ask an AI answers your climate questions

Welcome to ‘Ask an AI,’ our series in which we challenge ChatGPT and other AI models with tough questions on climate, energy, and sustainability.

Or, reversely, invite AI to devise or participate in a solution-based approach to one of the main challenges the climate, energy, and sustainability organisations and individuals are grappling with.

Highlights from the previous Q&A

In our April Ask an AI Q&A we asked ChatGPT about its carbon footprint.

Key insights to consider:

• ChatGPT accounts for 4% of US electricity usage
• The average carbon cost of a ChatGPT query is 1.07 grams of CO₂
• In the US in 2024, ChatGPT resulted in 105 million tons of CO₂e
• You can calculate your own ChatGPT carbon footprint using its internal carbon footprint calculator

How to use this page

This will be a consciously updated page.

If you scroll down to below the form, you will see three columns:

• As the name suggests all the Q&A series will be posted in the first column
• In news and updates we will feature the latest news concerning AI and sustainability. It will feature our own stories as well as external ones.
• Discussion is our community-based focus, where we invite people to engage with the subject and where future topics can be discussed.

A community focused new format

This series is a whole new format we are experiencing here at A greener life, a greener world.

It is a series we hope our readers, as well as the ones who don’t read us yet, would contribute to.

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