An industry-backed researcher who has forged a career sowing doubt about the dangers of pollutants is attempting to use artificial intelligence (AI) to amplify his perspective.

Louis Anthony “Tony” Cox Jr, a Denver-based risk analyst and former Trump adviser who once reportedly claimed there is no proof that cleaning air saves lives, is developing an AI application to scan academic research for what he sees as the false conflation of correlation with causation.

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    3 days ago

    You know how when you sit by a fire and the smoke comes toward you and it kinda sucks? What if the air was like that everywhere? With the power of pollution we can turn that dream into a reality!