Center for Sustainable Business | Trellis: 3 things sustainability professionals can’t afford to outsource to AI

Amy Skoczlas Cole, the director of the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business, breaks down what we cannot afford to turn over to AI in an article for Trellis. 

Key Takeaways:

• AI agents trained on outdated models won’t just overlook sustainability value; they will optimize against the identified business objective to the exclusion of other variables and time horizons.
• AI cannot read across systems with no shared language, common data structure and historical record of intersection — which is exactly what sustainability professionals do every day.
• It’s time for sustainability professionals to double down on the work we’re trained for: surfacing what isn’t yet priced before the market forces the correction.

Read the full article here.