The author says the world is now running two races on one track: unfinished climate action and an AI boom that anticipates from past data—hiring, credit, neighbourhood flags, policy drafts—and moves first with conclusions no one agreed to. Convenience (letters, planning, venting) hands over moods and priorities; the tool is not “smarter,” it is faster at repeating our biases.

Draw the line at delegation, not at use: keep human process on verdicts, civilian-risk war decisions, helplines. Practical tools named: audits of what systems do, a right to explanation and appeal, and real liability when harm happens—because “who decided?” is already a live legal mess. Recruitment trained on male-heavy history is the example.

UN 2026 figures cited: data centres could use 945 TWh a year by 2030—nearly three times Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nigeria’s combined power—plus water and land; rebound means cheaper AI means more use. UNEP is also cited: AI-helped methane cuts equal ~24 million cars. The ask is joint rules from regulators, international bodies, and firms, and an open cost (slower, dearer, fewer free tools). Essay, not a new energy model.

It is no news that climate change has been a topic of discussion for decades, and countries are attempting, or at least claiming to attempt, steps to mitigate and prevent it. There are also corporate actors furthering their own interests, focused on industrial expansion and innovation. While some states are running the climate race, some corporations and state-sponsored corporations are running the AI race and ordinary people, species, and the environment are caught between. Where innovation is important, there is also a flip side, there is always an environmental cost. The advocacy on reducing environmental pollution is well stated. However, converse to climate change, AI too has now joined the race, and this is the point. AI has grown to an unprecedented degree, so much so that its own creators question its survival. The world is no longer running one race against climate change. It is running two, on the same track, and the second runner is gaining.

AI has made life easy, and it is a fact. AI has become very convenient it makes day-to-day decision making easy, tasks delegated and timed accordingly, priorities checked and placed properly, and it helps in making informed decisions. But what is the real cost? The real cost, I mean not what we lose but, to be honest, the part that we do not know that we lost. When you use AI for day-to-day tasks, be it drafting a letter, planning a party, or venting emotions, AI gets a significant leverage about our life. It knows our ways, moods, choices, priorities and AI in fact guesses what is yet to come.

This is the new race. AI does not simply react. It anticipates.........

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