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When algorithms decide the climate: AI, disinformation, and the crisis of environmental truth in the Anthropocene
| datacite.subject.sdg | 04:Educação de Qualidade | |
| datacite.subject.sdg | 10:Reduzir as Desigualdades | |
| datacite.subject.sdg | 13:Ação Climática | |
| dc.contributor.author | Vidal, Diogo Guedes | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-01-29T10:26:08Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-01-29T10:26:08Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2026-01-16 | |
| dc.description.abstract | We often describe the Anthropocene as a planetary emergency. Yet beneath the ecological upheaval lies a deeper and more destabilising fracture: the erosion of environmental truth [1]. By environmental truth, I refer to the collectively negotiated understanding of climate and ecological realities, shaped by scientific, social, and technological processes. Climate knowledge today is reported, debated, and contested, but increasingly it is computed [2]. Algorithmic infrastructures now decide what becomes visible, credible, and politically actionable. My argument here is direct: AI systems and digital platforms have become co-producers of environmental truth, and this reconfigures the very conditions under which climate policy, public debate, and democratic decision-making occur. The Anthropocene is as much a crisis of meaning as it is of ecology. | eng |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Funding: The author acknowledges the support of FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, I.P., within the framework of Project UID/04004/2025 – Centre for Functional Ecology – Science for the People & the Planet,with DOI identifier 10.54499/UID/04004/2025 (https://doi.org/10.54499/UID/04004/2025), with an extension at Universidade Aberta, as well as the Associate Laboratory TERRA (reference LA/P/0092/2020). The funders had no role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Vidal DG (2026) When algorithms decide the climate: AI, disinformation, and the crisis of environmental truth in the Anthropocene. PLOS Clim 5(1): e0000799. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000799 | |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1371/journal.pclm.0000799 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2767-3200 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10400.2/21080 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.peerreviewed | yes | |
| dc.publisher | PLOS | |
| dc.relation | Laboratory for Sustainable Land Use and Ecosystem Services | |
| dc.relation.hasversion | https://journals.plos.org/climate/article?id=10.1371/journal.pclm.0000799 | |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | |
| dc.subject | Disinformation | |
| dc.subject | Anthropocene | |
| dc.subject | Climate Change | |
| dc.subject | AI | |
| dc.title | When algorithms decide the climate: AI, disinformation, and the crisis of environmental truth in the Anthropocene | eng |
| dc.type | journal article | |
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| oaire.awardTitle | Laboratory for Sustainable Land Use and Ecosystem Services | |
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| oaire.citation.issue | 1 | |
| oaire.citation.startPage | e0000799 | |
| oaire.citation.title | PLOS Climate | |
| oaire.citation.volume | 5 | |
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| person.familyName | Vidal | |
| person.givenName | Diogo Guedes | |
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