S4E2: How AI can Help Climate Change // Sasha Luccioni

In this episode of Are You A Robot?, Sasha Luccioni joins us to discuss how AI can help climate change. Sasha shares some of the amazing projects she is working on, including a programme that allows users to view images of environmental disasters projected onto their neighbourhoods.

Sasha Luccioni is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Université de Montréal & Member of Working Group on AI Ethics at the Canadian Commission for UNESCO: You can follow her on Twitter (@SashaMTL) and LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/3sLLnSS

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Resources mentioned in this episode:

• Mila: https://mila.quebec/en/


• Code Carbon: http://bit.ly/3e9yygW


• National Geographic: https://bit.ly/3uTd260


• Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning: https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.05433


• Climate Change and AI: https://www.climatechange.ai/


• Sasha’s research: https://bit.ly/3e2M325


• Sasha’s project on Visualising Climate Change : http://bit.ly/3bes7Y6


• WIRED article Sasha was quoted in: https://bit.ly/3bcP2mu


• Louis Byrd’s episode: http://bit.ly/2V2sQCQ


• Louis’ article about racist tech: http://bit.ly/3fA0tWa


• Charles Radclyffe’s article about racist chatbots: http://bit.ly/2OkZIqc