Using Artificial Intelligence to Tackle Climate Change, with Priya Donti

Published: Aug. 13, 2023, midnight

In this week\u2019s episode, host Kristin Hayes talks with Priya Donti, cofounder and executive director of Climate Change AI, a nonprofit that works at the intersection of climate change and machine learning. Donti discusses various types of artificial intelligence, the applications of artificial intelligence in the energy transition and climate policymaking, and the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration in the ethical development and implementation of artificial intelligence.\n\nReferences and recommendations:\n\n\u201cPutting the \u2018smarts\u2019 into the smart grid: a grand challenge for artificial intelligence\u201d by Sarvapali D. Ramchurn, Perukrishnen Vytelingum, Alex Rogers, and Nicholas R. Jennings; https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2133806.2133825\n\n\u201cTackling Climate Change with Machine Learning\u201d by David Rolnick, Priya L. Donti, Lynn H. Kaack, Kelly Kochanski, Alexandre Lacoste, Kris Sankaran, Andrew Slavin Ross, Nikola Milojevic-Dupont, Natasha Jaques, Anna Waldman-Brown, Alexandra Sasha Luccioni, Tegan Maharaj, Evan D. Sherwin, S. Karthik Mukkavilli, Konrad P. Kording, Carla P. Gomes, Andrew Y. Ng, Demis Hassabis, John C. Platt, Felix Creutzig, Jennifer Chayes, Yoshua Bengio; https://dl.acm.org/doi/full/10.1145/3485128\n\n\u201cClimate Change and AI: Recommendations for Government Action\u201d by Peter Clutton-Brock, David Rolnick, Priya L. Donti, Lynn H. Kaack, Tegan Maharaj, Alexandra (Sasha) Luccioni, Hari Prasanna Das; https://www.gpai.ai/projects/climate-change-and-ai.pdf\n\n\u201cEnvironmental justice in the age of big data: challenging toxic blind spots of voice, speed, and expertise\u201d by Alice Mah; https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23251042.2016.1220849