Cloudy with a chance of Algorithms

02/01/2026 12 min
Cloudy with a chance of Algorithms

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Tech giants say artificial intelligence can outsmart the storm, predicting tomorrow’s weather faster than ever. We return to a conversation we had with Paris Perdikaris of the University of Pennsylvania. He tells us about a new tension: forecasts are only as good as the public data that fuels them – and now even that is in doubt.

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