Artificial Intelligence and Sustainability: Rethinking AI as a Coevolutionary Catalyst

For decades, Artificial Intelligence (AI) was cast as a background tool—an efficient processor of data, a passive observer assisting scientists in making sense of complexity [1]. Sustainability, by contrast, was championed as a fundamentally human pursuit, tied to ethical choices and political will. Yet this dichotomy is now dissolving. Emerging applications suggest that AI is not simply supporting sustainability but coevolving with it, offering dynamic, context-sensitive strategies for navigating the environmental and biological crises of our time.