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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Technology
Dharna Noor

Inside a plan to use AI to amplify doubts about the dangers of pollutants

Collage of a bespectacled man and a phone screen with an outline of a brain.
Tony Cox is a Denver-based risk analyst whose work on an AI tool has been backed by the American Chemistry Council. Composite: The Guardian/Getty Images/ResearchGate/American Chemical Council

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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