Amid warnings about the potential troubling impacts resulting from proliferating use of artificial intelligence, or AI, technology in a growing number of areas such as social media and consumer products, there are also views that AI can be used for the greater good of society. Hannah Kerner, as assistant professor of computer science in the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence, part of the Fulton Schools, says AI and related machine learning tools could help confront challenges posed by climate change, poverty and food insecurity. Kerner and her colleagues are working on various ways to use AI as tool to benefit life on Earth.