Public awareness and concern about climate change often do not match the magnitude of its threat to humans and our environment. One reason for this disagreement is that it is difficult to mentally simulate the effects of a process as complex as climate change and to have a concrete representation of the impact that our individual actions will have on our own future, especially if the consequences are long term and abstract. To overcome these challenges, we propose to use cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) approaches to develop an interactive personalized visualization tool, the AI climate impact visualizer. It will allow a user to enter an address—be it their house, their school, or their workplace—-and it will provide them with an AI-imagined possible visualization of the future of this location in 2050 following the detrimental effects of climate change such as floods, storms, and wildfires. This image will be accompanied by accessible information regarding the science behind climate change, i.e., why extreme weather events are becoming more frequent and what kinds of changes are happening on a local and global scale.

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使用人工智能可视化气候变化的影响

公众对气候变化的认识和关注往往与其对人类和环境的威胁程度不匹配。这种分歧的一个原因是，很难在心理上模拟像气候变化这样复杂的过程的影响，并具体表示我们的个人行为将对我们自己的未来产生的影响，特别是如果后果是长期的和抽象。为了克服这些挑战，我们建议使用尖端的人工智能 (AI) 方法来开发交互式个性化可视化工具，即 AI 气候影响可视化器。它将允许用户输入一个地址——可以是他们的房子、他们的学校、或者他们的工作场所——并且它将为他们提供人工智能想象的可能，在洪水、风暴和野火等气候变化的不利影响之后，该地点在 2050 年的未来可视化。该图像将附有有关气候变化背后科学的可访问信息，即为什么极端天气事件变得越来越频繁，以及在地方和全球范围内正在发生什么样的变化。