Google Fellow John Platt: AI rerouting cut flight contrails by 62%
ziv_ravid · x · 2026-10-14
The Information Bottleneck podcast hosts Google Fellow John Platt (creator of Platt scaling and SMO) on AI for climate and science:
- Trials with American Airlines: AI flight rerouting cut contrail formation by 62% with almost no extra fuel; contrails account for 1% of human-caused warming
- FireSat, a satellite constellation to catch wildfires while small, plus ERA and where AI agents actually help scientists
- Platt argues the bitter lesson runs into energy and data center limits
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