This panel discussion plans to bring together leading journalists and experts who look at AI and the environment: both the unharnessed potential and potential pitfalls. We know that running AI -- including storing the data that enables it -- takes a huge toll on the environment. The question at hand is: is it worth it? How can AI be harnessed for climate modeling, satellite imagery and weather patterns to help farmers etc.? And, how do we balance the risks?
Join us to find out.
Panelists: Khari Johnson, Jackie Snow and Arunesh Sinha
Moderator: Fieke Jansen
Because we are planning to engage experts and journalists, we hope to have this panel live on in a blog series which includes the panelists. Additionally, we'll invite people to engage with Climate Change AI (https://www.climatechange.ai/about#people) to continue the conversation.
How will you deal with varying numbers of participants in your session?:If there are 30 participants in attendance, we would run this as a standard panel with time for Q&A at the end. If there were three participants our moderator would use the time to facilitate more of a discussion - what is the experience of the participants in the audience? Why did they choose to come to that session? And, what did they want to learn about AI and the environment? This format could be more conversational.
Exec program manager at Mozilla Foundation. MozFest 2019 wrangler. AI theme planner.
Jon Lloyd is Head of Campaigns at the Mozilla Foundation.