Human-made climate change may already be affecting at least 85% of the world’s population, according to a new AI analysis. Scientists produced the estimate by using the BERT language model to extract environmental assessments from research papers. Their algorithm was first trained on more than 2,000 hand-coded documents. It was then applied to a trove of studies published between 1951 and 2018. In total, the algorithm identified more than 100,000 papers documenting the effects of climate change. The researchers then used location data from the studies to map the impacts around the world. They found that anthropogenic climate change already impacts at…
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