Building tangible, replicable, and inclusive environmental solutions

Ending global plastic pollution may sound like a daunting task, but that’s exactly what the United Nations set out to do in 2022 by creating the first-ever international legally binding treaty on plastic pollution. DSE contributed to ongoing negotiations by designing an open source, AI-powered model that enables policymakers to examine combinations of policies at different levels to inform their negotiation positions. Relatedly, we published new findings in Science in 2024 and 2026 that recommend a policy package to reduce global plastic pollution by 91% by 2050 and strategies to improve data...

On this week's episode of Boiling Point, postdoctoral researcher Cassie Buhler discusses the benefits (particularly for energy efficiency and privacy) of open weight AI models.

In this recent article, faculty advisor Carl Boettiger describes how he teaches his students to critically assess any AI-based findings, rather than accept them as objective facts.