Thematic Area: Environment
Vision
Combined expertise in environment, climate, and AI will lead to reductions in the environmental impacts of human activity and increased resilience to environmental change as a result of collaboration, training opportunities, and advanced technology, policy, and solutions.
Mission
To responsibly develop and use AI to understand and address critical human-environmental challenges from local to global scales in a manner that promotes resilience and fosters sustainable development.
Activities & Impacts
- Sustainable AI: establish ethical governance, assess environmental impacts, explore broader societal effects of AI on environmental misinformation and social inequities, and develop responsible and environmentally conscious AI applications.
- AI for Environmental Resilience: improving climate and air datasets and models, accelerate climate technologies and solutions, enhance risk detection and mitigation, and enable planning and sustainable development.
Spring 2024 Working Group Membership
- Executive Committee Member: William Anderegg (Biology, College of Science)
- Co-lead: Tim Collins (Environment, Society & Sustainability, College of Social and Behavioral Science)
- Co-lead: Court Strong (Atmospheric Sciences, College of Mines and Earth Sciences)
- Heather Holmes (Chem Eng, Price College of Engineering)
- Alessandro Rigalon (City and Metropolitan Planning, Architecture + Planning)
- Elizabeth Callaway (English, College of Humanities)
- Amanda Bakian (Psychiatry, School of Medicine)
- Akil Narayan (Mathematics, College of Science)
- Masood Parvania (Electrical and Computer Engineering, Price College of Engineering)
- Ramkiran Gouripeddi (Biomedical Informatics, School of Medicine)