AI RESEARCH
The Rise of AI in Weather and Climate Information and its Impact on Global Inequality
arXiv CS.AI
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ArXi:2603.05710v1 Announce Type: cross The rapid adoption of AI in Earth system science promises unprecedented speed and fidelity in the generation of climate information. However, this technological prowess rests on a fragile and unequal foundation: the current trajectory of AI development risks further automating and amplifying the North-South divide in the global climate information system. We outline the global asymmetry in High-Performance Computing and data infrastructure, nstrating that the development of foundation models is almost exclusively concentrated in the Global North.