All tools can be used for good and for evil, be used both responsibly and irresponsibly, and end up being helpful or hurtful. The use of algorithms to solve problems and find solutions has already proved useful, the algorithms marketers want us to call AI are not different. AI seems more likely to contribute to climate change than cure it, but there are appropriate places for that technology and science is one of them. It just come down to how it's being used.