With terms such as 'cloud computing' and 'artificiality', AI often comes across as immaterial and environmentally unimpactful. However, the rise of generative AI, high-performance computing and data centres together with the corresponding increase in end-users, is unbalancing existing energy and water ecosystems globally.

While there are infrastructural solutions to the environmental impact of AI, the event will focus on how to build awareness with both AI developers and users on making AI more environmentally friendly.

The event will present three key topics from Dr Georgia Panagiotidou’s research lab:

• How the AI community views sustainability
• Limitations and ways forward for current eco-feedback awareness tools
• New tools for making AI users more aware of their environmental impact

No prior knowledge of AI is required to enjoy this event. It may be of particular interest to those working in sustainability.

This event is a collaboration between the King’s Institute for Artificial Intelligence and the Net Zero Centre. 

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Speaker

Dr Georgia Panagiotidou is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Visualisation in the Faculty of Natural, Mathematical & Engineering Sciences, King's College London. She obtained a PhD from KU Leuven in Belgium, and completed her MA at Aalto University, Finland. Before joining King's, she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the UCL Interaction Centre.

King's Festival of Artificial Intelligence

This event is part of the King’s Festival of Artificial Intelligence. Running from Tuesday 20 May to Saturday 24 May, the free, five-day festival brings together a diverse line-up of experts to consider critical questions about artificial intelligence in the context of healthcare, education, sustainability, policy, and creativity.

If you are interested in this event, you may also want to join us for:

• Will AI Make Geoengineering a Viable Response to Climate Change?
• AI and Sustainability in Business: Balancing Opportunity and Risk
• Building the Data Infrastructure to Help Us Achieve Net Zero
• AI for Market-Based Finance for Net Zero

Festival events will take place across several King’s venues, so please check carefully where the event is taking place. Festival event times may be subject to change. Any changes will be communicated to attendees via Eventbrite emails.

Please note, King's events are free, which means we routinely overbook to allow for no-shows and avoid empty seats. Admission is on a first come, first served basis, so please arrive in good time to avoid disappointment. We will not be able to admit those without tickets or latecomers.