Using AI to tackle Climate Change. Sasha Luccioni. 2020 AI for Climate Global Forum.

Sasha Luccioni, during the 2020 AI for Climate Global Forum, presents examples of the exploration and potential of AI to model complex systems associated with climate change and its effect on ecological patterns, as well as the potential of AI to tackle climate change.

Sasha Luccioni is a researcher working with Yoshua Bengio and others on climate change-related initiatives at Mila, including projects that aim to estimate the environmental impact of Machine Learning and to analyze financial disclosures from a climate standpoint. Her work sits at the intersection of AI and the environment, and her goal is to find ways to maximize the positive impacts of AI while minimizing the negative ones, be it from a research or application perspective. Sasha's work has been featured in various news and media outlets such as MIT Technology Review, WIRED, and the Wall Street Journal, among others, both my projects on the environmental impact of AI and those on how to reduce it. She is also a 2020 National Geographic Explorer and holds an IVADO postdoctoral scholarship.