Fake People, Real Projects Killed: AI Disinformation and the New Clean Energy Bottleneck

About this episode

The episode discusses the impact of AI disinformation on clean energy projects and the challenges of public trust in the energy transition.

Get in touch - leave me a message Fake people. Fake comments. Real clean energy projects killed. This is what climate delay looks like in the AI era. In this episode of Climate Confident, I’m joined by Leah Qusba, CEO of GoodPower, an organisation working at the intersection of climate tech, culture, policy, and decarbonisation. We explore a hard truth about the energy transition: solar, wind, batteries, and electrification may be ready, but public trust, local permission, and disinformation ...

People in this episode

Host: Tom Raftery

Guest: Leah Qusba

Topics covered

• AI disinformation
• clean energy
• climate tech
• public trust
• energy transition

Keywords

• AI
• disinformation
• clean energy
• solar
• wind
• decarbonisation
• public trust

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: GoodPower

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