Technomoral Conversations: Sustainability and Artificial Intelligence

Monday, 21 November 2022
6:00 pm 7:00 pm 18:00 19:00

Inspace 1 Crichton Street Edinburgh, Scotland, EH8 9AB United Kingdom (map)

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Technomoral Conversations is a panel event on Sustainability and Artificial Intelligence.

What is the impact of AI on the planet? There are reasons to hope that data-driven efficiencies and insights can help produce innovative solutions to the climate emergency, touching areas such as energy, biodiversity monitoring and conservation, transportation, water conservation, and agriculture, among others. On the other hand, there are also real concerns about the climate cost of producing AI models in the first place. Researchers have found that training a single AI model can emit as much carbon as five cars in their lifetimes. Will AI turn out to be a net negative or a net positive for the sustainability of life on the planet?

Join us for a conversation on sustainability and AI, featuring a panel of experts who are tackling different facets of this challenge.

Speakers:

Professor Shannon Vallor, Chair (Director of the Centre for Technomoral Futures at the Edinburgh Futures Institute)
Dr Ronita Bardhan (Associate Professor of Sustainable Built Environment at the Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge)
Dr Ramit Debnath (Computational social scientist and Inaugural Cambridge Zero Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge)
Jonathan Bean (Physicist, Engineer and CEO of Materials Nexus, a deep-tech start-up)
Professor Mirella Lapata (Professor of natural language processing, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh)