Artificial intelligence corporations have lofty ambitions for what the expertise might obtain, from curing ailments to eliminating poverty. However the vitality required to energy these improvements is threatening important environmental targets. Madeleine Finlay hears from the Guardian’s vitality correspondent, Jillian Ambrose, and UK expertise editor, Alex Hern, to learn how massive AI’s vitality downside is, and whether or not it may be solved earlier than it’s too late