You’re not helping them long term which was the point of the Sankara quote.
It forces these countries to be dependent on food aid rather than self sufficient which means that if they try to go even somewhat against neoliberalism and actually raise the living standards and wages of their people the US then pulls the aid (as well as likely aiding armed groups to kill the leadership) in order to force the government out and installing comprador regimes in its place.
In a vacuum I’m glad that people are trying to come up with creative ideas to combat climate change since you never know what might work.
The issue is that in the US this is often being done in place of and not in addition to stuff we know needs to be done like restructuring cities around public transportation, encouraging people to reduce or eliminate meat consumption, etc.
The amount of times I’ve seen people try and justify the massive energy and water consumption LLM are using because the “AI” will solve the issue for us is way too many. Like even if it was an actual AI being worked on it’s very likely going to just tell us to do things we already knew we should’ve been doing and that’s even if you can artificially create sentience which I feel like is a a big if.