SCORAI has launched an Expert AI on sustainable consumption — built on the knowledge of our global research and practitioner network. Ask it anything, then help us make it even better.
What Is the SCORAI Expert AI?
Sustainable consumption is a rich and complex field. It spans questions of food systems, housing, mobility, sufficiency, policy design, consumer behaviour, well-being, and planetary boundaries — and the academic and policy literature on all of these topics is vast. Finding a reliable, nuanced answer to a specific question used to mean hours of searching through journal articles, reports, and conference proceedings.
The SCORAI Expert AI is designed to change that. It is an AI assistant trained on expert knowledge in the field of sustainable consumption, drawing on the work of SCORAI’s international network of researchers and practitioners. Whether you are a researcher, a policymaker, a journalist, an educator, or simply a curious citizen, the Expert AI gives you a focused and informed starting point for exploring the issues that matter most.
What Can You Ask It?
The SCORAI Expert AI is well-suited to questions across the full breadth of the sustainable consumption agenda. Some examples of what you might explore:
- What does the research say about the link between consumption levels and well-being?
- How effective are carbon taxes and other policy instruments in shifting consumption patterns?
- What is sufficiency, and how does it differ from efficiency?
- How can cities design infrastructure that supports sustainable lifestyles?
- What role does social practice theory play in explaining consumer behaviour?
- How do 1.5-degree lifestyle targets translate into everyday choices?
These are the kinds of questions the SCORAI community has been working on for years. The Expert AI brings those accumulated insights to your fingertips.
Why Use This Instead of a General-Purpose AI?
Tools like ChatGPT are impressive, but they are generalists. They draw on the entire internet — including a great deal of misinformation, greenwashing, and content that confuses correlation with causation. When it comes to sustainable consumption, that can mean vague answers, missed nuance, or outright errors.
The SCORAI Expert AI is different because it is grounded in the work of a dedicated international knowledge network. It is designed to reflect the depth and rigour of research on sustainable consumption, rather than the average of everything ever published online. It is a specialist, not a generalist — and on this topic, that distinction matters.
Try It — and Tell Us What You Think
The Expert AI is freely available to everyone. You can access it directly at scorai.net/ai. Try asking it something you have genuinely been wondering about. Put it through its paces. See where it impresses you and where it falls short.
We are actively developing this tool and your feedback is invaluable. What topics does it handle well? Where does it miss the mark? What kinds of questions would you most want it to be able to answer? The more concrete your feedback, the more useful it is to us.
Please share your experience — what worked, what did not, and what you would like to see improved.
Help Us Build a Better Knowledge Base
The Expert AI is only as good as the knowledge it can draw on. One of the most powerful things about SCORAI is that it brings together researchers, practitioners, and advocates from across the world — people with deep expertise in areas ranging from sustainable food systems to post-growth economics to climate communication.
If you have expert content — research papers, reports, policy briefs, teaching materials, or other substantive resources — that you think should inform the AI’s responses, we want to hear from you. Contributing your work to the knowledge base is a way of extending its reach and making it available to a much wider audience than a journal article alone can typically achieve.
To contribute content or discuss how your expertise could strengthen the knowledge base, please email Robert at scorai@orzanna.de.
A Tool Built by the Community, for the Community
SCORAI has always been about more than publishing research. It is a network committed to action — to bridging the gap between knowledge and change. The Expert AI is an extension of that commitment: a way to make the field’s best thinking more accessible, more usable, and more impactful.
We see this as a living tool that will grow and improve as more members of the SCORAI community engage with it. Your questions shape what it needs to know. Your feedback shapes how it responds. Your content shapes the depth and breadth of what it can offer.
So go ahead — try the SCORAI Expert AI, share your thoughts, and help us build something genuinely useful for the sustainable consumption research and action community.
TRY THE EXPERT AI
Ask your sustainable consumption questions here: scorai.net/ai
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Contact Robert at scorai@orzanna.de