Google.org Impact Challenge: AI for Science

Google’s exponential path to climate-wrecking digital bloat

Google’s latest report reveals a completely unprecedented rise in energy consumption – more than any of us expected. Generative AI is a climate carbon bomb.

Charting AI’s Role in Scientific Discovery — Renaissance Philanthropy – A brighter future for all through science, technology, and innovation

Renaissance Philanthropy, with support from Google.org , is conducting a landscape study of AI integration in scientific research — and we want your perspective.

AI’s climate impact is much smaller than many feared

New findings challenge the widespread belief that AI is an environmental villain. By analyzing U.S. economic data and AI usage across industries, researchers discovered that AI’s energy consumption—while significant locally—barely registers at national or global scales. Even more surprising, AI could help accelerate green technologies rather than hinder them.

Inside the AI Index: 12 Takeaways from the 2026 Report | Stanford HAI

The annual report reveals a field hitting breakthrough capabilities while raising urgent questions about environmental costs, transparency, and who benefits from the technology.

The 2026 Developer's Guide to Free Google Cloud Credits (For AI & Side Projects)

If you’re a beginner or developer who wants to pursue a career in AI in 2026, you can’t ignore the...

Using X-Labs to Unleash AI-Driven Scientific Breakthroughs | IFP

How to adapt our science funding mechanisms to the unique infrastructure needs of large-scale AI projects

Environmental Cost of Artificial Intelligence: Carbon, Water, and Land Footprints

AI’s rapid growth drives huge energy, water, and land use, raising environmental and equity challenges across its global infrastructure.

Environmental Cost of Artificial Intelligence: Carbon, Water, and Land Footprints

AI’s rapid growth drives huge energy, water, and land use, raising environmental and equity challenges across its global infrastructure.

Artificial intelligence tools expand scientists’ impact but contract science’s focus

Nature - Artificial intelligence boosts individual scientists’ output, citations and career progression, but collectively narrows research diversity and reduces collaboration, concentrating...

Measuring AI’s capability to accelerate biological research in the wet lab

OpenAI introduces a real-world evaluation framework to measure how AI can accelerate biological research in the wet lab. Using GPT-5 to optimize a molecular cloning protocol, the work explores both the promise and risks of AI-assisted experimentation.

Kevin Weil 🇺🇸 on Twitter / X

💥 Today we’re introducing Prism—a free, AI-native workspace for scientists to write and collaborate on research, powered by GPT-5.2.Accelerating science requires progress on two fronts:1. Frontier AI models that use scientific tools and can tackle the hardest problems2.… pic.twitter.com/cnLysHixuQ— Kevin Weil 🇺🇸 (@kevinweil) January 27, 2026

AI has supercharged scientists—but may have shrunk science

Analysis of 41 million papers finds that although AI expands individual impact, it narrows collective scientific exploration

If AI is the future, gender equity is essential | NetHope

As the world faces many serious challenges — from climate change and poverty to displacement and social injustice – women and girls are key to tackling those issues and shaping future prosperity for all. Artificial Intelligence (AI), along with other digital tools, has the potential to help us address those challenges and open new opportunities. Seizing that potential requires us to take meaningful action to mitigate the risks AI poses to women and girls, and to use AI to advance gender equity.

OpenAI launches new AI model for life sciences research

Researchers are drowning in data. AI could help.

AI + Planetary Justice Alliance

The AI + Planetary Justice Alliance is a global collective of researchers, activists, and artists, working to address the socio-environmental impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) across its entire lifecycle.