Can Artificial Intelligence Become a Planetary Co-Pilot? | MMK Heilbronn

How can AI help humanity rehearse different climate futures—and choose the ones that maximise resilience, dignity, and justice?

In this keynote at MMK Heilbronn, Dr. Tobias Engelmeier, CEO of VIDA.place, explores how artificial intelligence is transforming our ability to understand, anticipate, and manage climate risk at a planetary scale. Drawing on satellite imagery, big data, and AI, he shows how climate change must be understood not through averages, but through interconnected socio-ecological systems—where weather, food security, infrastructure, migration, and political stability are tightly linked.

Dr. Engelmeier explains how AI already outperforms traditional tools in forecasting climate shocks, from global weather prediction to fine-grained flood and heat maps—and why the next leap is using AI to simulate entire systems. From modelling cascading climate impacts to stress-testing adaptation strategies, he outlines a future in which world-model AI acts as a planetary co-pilot: not predicting one inevitable future, but helping society explore “if-then” scenarios and make better, more humane decisions in the face of systemic risk.

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