Climate tech company Tomorrow.io is building a new generation of weather satellites that could give billions of people earlier warnings about dangerous storms.Why it matters: It's an example of the kind of tangible upside that can be hard to spot amid escalating warnings about AI's risks to humanity.Driving the news: Tomorrow.io on Thursday unveiled the full instrument architecture for DeepSky, its next-generation early-warning satellite constellation.The company says more than 5 billion people live outside ground-based weather radar coverage, with large blind spots over oceans where storms can intensify before reaching populated areas.That lack of coverage leaves these communities vulnerable to unpredictable and potentially catastrophic weather events. How it works: DeepSky is essentially a data-gathering layer designed to give AI forecasting models better real-time data.It has satellites that carry five instruments that measure different parts of the atmosphere: temperature, moisture, ocean-surface winds, cloud structure and precipitation.Those satellites are purposely deployed to cover oceans and other places with little or no radar coverage. Those observations will be fed into numerical and AI weather models.Zoom out: AI has improved the capabilities of weather modeling.AI-powered cameras, satellite systems and weather-prediction tools are helping agencies in Western states detect wildfires sooner, for example. But "AI is only as powerful as the data behind it," Tomorrow.io CEO and co-founder Shimon Elkabetz told Axios via message. Yes, but: Tomorrow.io has claimed it would use AI tools to fix weather forecasting for underserved communities for years. The scale of the improvement in real-world warning times remains to be proven upon further rollout of the technology.