Exploring the promise of AI in fighting climate change.
This panel launches from two broad premises: AI is rapidly changing our lives. Climate change represents an existential threat to life on Planet Earth. It will then tackle a series of questions: How do we mobilize the extraordinary capabilities of AI to respond to climate change and deliver a sustainable future more generally? At the same time, how do we address the threats AI poses to a successful response to climate change? What are the leading-edge applications of AI in the climate challenge? What policy interventions might allow us to maximize AI’s upside potential while minimizing the downside risks?
Join leading experts representing cutting-edge thinking from industry, energy systems, academia, climate justice, and the policy arena in a lively give-and-take designed to separate AI hype from reality.
About the Panelists
Alexis Abramson, Dean, Columbia Climate School
David Sandalow, Inaugural Fellow, Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University SIPA and Host of the AI, Energy and Climate Podcast
Uday Khemka, Managing Trustee of The Nand & Jeet Khemka Foundation, Director of The Green AI Learning Network (“GRAIL”)
Michel Gelobter, Executive Director of the Yale Center for Environmental Justice
Dan Esty, Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy at Yale University and Director of the Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy (moderator)
