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"What links artificial intelligence and the climate crisis? On the one hand,
they’re both driven by fossil fuels. The link between dirty energy and an
ever-heating climate is well-established. As for AI’s connection, energy hungry
data centres and certain AI-powered tasks, such as generating images, require
vast amounts of power.
On the other hand, AI has the potential to dramatically reduce our climate
impact – not least by finding smart ways to cut energy consumption and
generally shrink our carbon footprint.
From a climate perspective, AI is both a threat and a promise.
If we’re to harness that promise, we need to bring the brightest minds in AI
and climate activism together. Those are two tribes that haven’t always been on
the same page. But this is changing, and that’s thanks to people like Priya
Donti, co-founder of global non-profit Climate Change AI (CCAI).
Her own back story encapsulates this shift. In high school, a biology teacher
sparked in her a passion for climate and sustainability. Then at university,
she fell in love with computer science – and was promptly struck by what seemed
like a weird omission in the discipline. “Other technical subjects –
engineering, biology, physics, chemistry – all seemed to have an application to
climate. But I wasn’t finding that [with computer science]. I had these two
things, climate change and computing, both of which I really like and care
about. How do I bring them together?”"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
